Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior captain Pepper Brill's defense was calm and rock-solid at the back. The offense looked past its usual fetish for scoring from the set-piece to pick up two pretty goals in the flow of play...
While the political arrangements worked out by former President Jimmy Carter seemed to be running on schedule, the more complicated task of bringing calm to Haiti has required improvisation. The original agreement, which envisioned using the Haitian security forces to continue to police the country under the aegis of the U.S. Army, has fallen apart. "We really didn't figure," a U.S. officer says, "that the Haitian police would evaporate the way they...
...would compare her to the goddess Athens, the goddess of wisdom and the arts and sciences and protector of the city," Green said. "Like Athena, she was able to shift the winds and calm the seas...
Throughout all of this chaos, it is Willum's playhouse that is invaded. As a set designed like an Intimist painting, it's an apt pressure cooker--a fine place to have a nervous breakdown. Stokes shows two sides of Willum: one is calm, as in the scene where he delivers a story laying on the floor and looking dreamy; the other one is much more neurotic, shoulders heavy with burden, sweating, panting, and turning more and more pale with each new conundrum. Throughout most of the play, Stokes leans towards the latter disposition, letting on that while...
Students interviewed yesterday were rather calm about the endorsement decisions...