Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, the bulk of my best Harvard memories are from that one summer. They are visceral reactions more than memories. Instinctively, I imagine the Yard, hot and still except for dogs and frisbees, when I try to think of school and calm at the same time. Nothing was serious. It was too bright for that...
...city suffered through its fourth water alert in 12 months, the mayor tried to calm the populace by calling a press conference. With cameras whirring, Marion Barry dramatically held up a liquid that residents had earlier been warned by health authorities might kill the tropical fish in their aquariums, took a lip-smacking gulp and pronounced it "D.C.'s finest." Citizens were, of course, happy to see that the mayor was drinking nothing stronger than water, but wondered what could be impairing his judgment so severely that he blamed the media and his very own health commissioner for the water...
...highlighted the possibility of unrest if Yeltsin lost. Many people felt some nostalgia for what the communists had done for Russia and no one liked the President--but they liked the possibility of riots and class warfare even less." "'Stick with Yeltsin and at least you'll have calm'--that was the line we wanted to convey," says Dresner. "So the drumbeat about unrest kept pounding right till the end of the run-off round, when the final TV spots were all about the Soviets' repressive rule...
Trying to calm him, I explained that there was no reason for him to be under consideration for a cultural-exchange visit in the first place. Some of his friends, after all, were in the habit of describing him as a culture-free zone...
Often urging the more jovial governor to get serious, the senator's calm and collected debate style was often impressive...