Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depositors stayed calm, even though some chafed at the idea of the cost of the bailout. "Honestly, it's the stupidest thing I've heard," said Leroy Scrues, a Detroit retiree. "Why should the public be paying for these rich peoples' mistakes?" Yet legislators and savers were relieved that Bush repudiated a proposal that his Administration had floated two weeks earlier: to levy a fee -- 25 cents for each $100 of deposits -- on all insured accounts. That ploy was widely seen as a tax in everything but name. The short-lived proposal was so distasteful that it made Bush...
Baker "runs a calm shop," says State Department counselor Robert Zoellick. "There's no nonsense. You state your views and support them, both as briefly and quietly as possible. Then you get out." Zoellick, who could have been White House domestic-affairs adviser, is one of a handful of Baker aides who turned down more visible posts elsewhere in the Administration. "The reason for that," says Margaret Tutwiler, who has been Baker's closest assistant for more than ten years, "is that ((Baker)) is loyal down as well as up. He seeks out strong-minded people and delegates considerable authority...
Warhol's power, uneven as it was, lay in an emotional narrative that contradicted its cold, fixed, iconic surface. He unskeined a story in which a horror of the world, verging sometimes on acute dread, mingled with an artificial calm and a desire for transcendence. Try as one may, one cannot imagine Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962, being painted by anyone but a Roman Catholic homosexual; it is both completely camp in its pseudo-Byzantine extravagance and, in its identification of the star with the Madonna, yearningly devotional. Here, Warhol is Genet in paint. So too with the "disasters...
...There's never been a demonstration in favor of tax increases," said Johnston, a former state legislator. "But we'll have to be calm and tell the people the reality of the budget crunch--that this is a progressive tax increase...
Despite pleas for calm from his widow Coretta Scott King, blacks throughout urban America turned to violence. "When white America killed Dr. King, she declared war," said radical Stokely Carmichael. The nation's cities -- at least 125 in 28 states -- caught fire. Washington, Chicago, Baltimore and Kansas City, were hardest hit. More than 65,000 federal troops were required to quell the disorders, which raged for a week...