Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheek. "Wish me luck, honey," he calls, as a uniformed security guard lines the players up double file and marches them into the chandeliered casino, where 30 gleaming Super Seven slot machines are cordoned off behind red velvet ropes. Sauntering nonchalantly up to his machine, Wickham assumes a calm, assured stance as he awaits the starting buzzer of Round...
...still largely under U.S. control, Saddam now finds northern Iraq occupied by foreign forces who freely order his troops around. Hopes of putting an end to such humiliations surely contributed to his decision to offer the Kurds an olive branch. Saddam was also motivated by a desire to bring calm to the country so as to encourage the lifting of U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq. "The embargo is killing him. He can't begin reconstruction," says a senior Western diplomat in Ankara. "He has to have money if he's going to have any future...
...know a woman whose son died by drowning on the night of his high school graduation. She told me she got through the weeks and months afterward by reading and rereading the works of Willa Cather. The calm and clarity of Cather's prose stabilized the woman and helped her through the time...
...Current on the unfamiliar river also threw Radcliffe a little off course. Though Radcliffe never let the other crews creep too close, the Radcliffe boats themselves has a tendency to creep directly towards their opponents. The water was deceptively calm, hiding a coxswaim's nightmare of a cross-current...
...ideal day for flat fishing is cloudless, calm and roasting hot. The guide poles the skiff along the flats in a predatory silence, and you stand on the bow platform, with line stripped out, sweating through the sunblock lotion, ready to cast. Tarpon fishing is stalking. You must see the fish and cast to it. Hence its peculiar excitement, which far exceeds trout or even salmon fishing. "Look, look, out there, about a hundred feet, in the white spot, a big one, he's coming, ooh, thrreee of them!" You peer and scan and peer again, and see nothing. Then...