Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stay calm, and keep a close watch on this individual. If the Captain can be identified in his home environment, the battle is half won. Keep me posted. I am repulsed by this character. And yet, intrigued...
Along with Grant's chivalry comes his unflappable cool. Even when he becomes a little ruffled, he doesn't show it, or he lets us know he's in control of the situation with a wink and a nod and a calm "well, old chap, I guess that's how it goes." So much for today's ideal of the sensitive '90s man who shows his feelings, but that doesn't bother me. In real life, that may be nice, but in day dreams, who needs it? He's manly but not overbearing macho but not sexist...
...Farrakhan, still impetuous at 60, is a problem for himself. In private a calm, seemingly rational man yearning for a place among trusted elders of his race, he is apt in public to get carried away on a wave of rhetoric and say things so intemperate, so easily misunderstood -- and sometimes not misunderstood -- that he thwarts his ambition...
...modify our position," Hosokawa warned afterward. "It's just not acceptable for the United States to continue on the same path," Clinton warned back last week. But as both sides grumbled, they tried to keep the brinkmanship within bounds. "The intent and fact are to be measured and calm about this," insisted a White House official, even as others waved fists at Japan...
...student group leaders say that under thesurface calm, activism for a more diverse facultycontinues...