Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Brown appeared before Judge Robert Lippmann five days after her commitment to Bellevue, she was calm and articulate. The nearest public toilet was at Grand Central Terminal, too far to walk, she explained. She tore up money when she had enough for the day because it was dangerous to carry cash at night. Yet do-gooders persisted. "I've heard people say, 'Take it, it will make me feel good,' or 'I'm only trying to help you,' " Brown complained. "Is it my job to make them feel good...
...years Ronald Reagan was a President the country could respect for his calm, his bearing and indeed for the very success of his tenure. Reagan represented something the nation had not really seen since John Kennedy: a personally popular President who was leading the country. At last, it seemed, a President was going to serve two successful terms in office...
...technical aid and investment that it desperately wants. An expanding economy can only boost China's position in the world power equation. As the world financial community awaits--and fears--Hong Kong's 1997 reunification with the mainland, a constricted party role in the economy can only help calm the transition...
...minute, my heart no longer beating, there is calm, a gap in the excitement as the still motionlessness of the early morning desert thrusts its awkward head in the side door of our mental tree house, a pause, a break--and then the moonface puts his hand on the front door passenger side handle and the realization hits me that this man is the governor of California, this man is Ronald Reagan, and I turn slowly towards the backseat, toward the agony of truth, for I know this implausibility can only come from within, that the exterior world however cruel...
Sharansky warned against allowing Gorbachev's release of the few well-known names to calm down the fervor of American supporters of Soviet Jews...