Word: calmes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sympathizers in the crowd. The protest escalated when rock-throwing monks destroyed a Tibetan TV transmission van, and rioters, shouting "Smash everything that belongs to the Communist Party and the Chinese!" overturned other vehicles. Fighting worsened after police and paramilitary forces stormed the temple, Tibet's holiest shrine. When calm was restored some twelve hours later, at least eight were dead...
...Livingstones slip into affluence gracefully; they are pleasant, generous with their friendship but dull. Rachel is a frequent recipient of their hospitality, even though they represent the bourgeois sentiments she mocks. Bringing up Heather proves to be exasperating: she combines naivete with a calm disposition that approaches smugness. "One thought of her not exactly as a woman," says Rachel, "but as some sort of animal known for its unassuming qualities, a heifer, perhaps." And, she adds, "heifers are also traditionally associated with sacrifice...
...examples of "running roughshod," "personal animosity," and "shouting matches" in politics. While he is also correct in suggesting that such actions, when they actually do occur, are matters for serious concern, I must maintain that such terms simply do not come to mind as I look back upon the calm and dignified actions of Chairperson Mandery last Sunday...
...Moore's keep-calm advice seemed odd given those figures, EPA's strategy for removing or sealing the asbestos appeared even more so. Citing limited resources to dispose of the material and the need to deal first with school buildings, the agency recommended a period of evaluation before the nation launches a cleanup that could cost $51 billion. Democratic Representative James Florio of New Jersey said EPA is "sweeping this alarming problem under...
...violence erupted in the wake of nine days of demonstrations in neighboring Armenia. By promising to examine local grievances, Gorbachev had managed to calm protests involving hundreds of thousands of marchers in the Armenian capital of Yerevan. But marches were reportedly continuing in Nagorno-Karabakh, an autonomous district that is mainly populated by Armenians but lies within the borders of the Azerbaijan republic. Protests demanding the enclave's annexation by the Armenian republic led to violent clashes between Armenians and Azerbaijanis and, finally, to last week's bloody upheaval in Sumgait...