Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kaibel said that before the Midwest region Rhodes scholars were announced, she was "anxious." The other candidates all seemed "very calm and collected," she said. She was "pretty shocked" to hear her name listed among the winners, she added...
PBHA members say Pan is a low-key and effective leader. Even during Wednesday night's elections, he kept his calm, friendly demeanor, students...
Northern Ireland and Britain took a first step toward ending their 25-year conflict today, as the two sides met for the first time in a three-hour negotiating session. Though the positions of both parties are still far apart, today's historic meeting was described as calm and constructive and another date was set for December 19. Sinn Fein's delegation leader Martin McGuiness said, "We've made a beginning. It should have happened a long time ago." U.K. Prime Minister John Major, from a European summit in Germany, cautioned though that these sessions are only "talks about talks...
...Inspiration of the Poet, circa 1631, glancing upward while the imperious hand of Apollo redirects his attention to the text in his hand and the muse Calliope gives him a level look of benign assessment, might as well be Poussin himself. The allegory unfolds in a luminous calm but is grounded by discreet observation: the relaxed pose of Apollo's arm resting on the lyre, the physical beauty of the Muse, the crispness of her yellow-and-white drapery...
...risks pale beside the opportunity of a pact with Syria. Even with Israel at peace with its other neighbors, Syria might seek to undermine the existing agreements if it remains the only state on Israel's borders still at war with it. Peace with Syria would also calm the region, help secure Western access to Middle East oil at reasonable prices and further isolate Iraq and Iran, the bad actors supporting the world's worst terrorists...