Word: calmed
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That's how a lot of older people nowadays think about marathons. "For days after running a marathon you just feel this sense of calm, of accomplishment," says Marla Rhoden, 50, a government administrator in Topeka, Kans. Her times are slower than they were 10 years ago. "But that's not hard to take," she says. "I do well for my age." She placed first among runners ages 50 to 59 in the Boston Marathon in April...
...field, he is a cool customer and very calm even when things seem hectic,” Kerr said. “He is equally calm, cool and collected off the field...
...very calm and confident and in-your-face,” he said. “I do both beat-juggling and scratching; [Or D’Oeuvre] was doing mostly scratching,” he added, referring to various turntabling techniques...
...very good character, one we've not previously encountered at the movies, and Clooney plays him with a wonderfully calm subtlety. The man never sweats or, for that matter, raises his voice when the pressure is on him, which it almost always is. At most, he registers anxiety with an almost imperceptible flicker of his eyes. When we meet him, the firm's leading litigator, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) has suffered a serious meltdown in Milwaukee - in the the midst of taking a deposition he has stripped naked and run out babbling into a snowy parking lot. Arthur has been...
...numbers cruncher to her advantage with ads that many say turned the tide in the last election, and it has surfaced again in an emotionally charged spot produced by one of Jindal's challengers, Democrat Walter Boasso. In the ad, a middle-aged woman named Lynn McNiece, in a calm voice, barely concealing her grief and rage, tells of her mentally disabled brother who was evicted from a nursing home during Jindal's tenure at the state health department. "Bobby Jindal threw my brother out on the street, and no one bothered to even call me," she says. "Bobby Jindal...