Word: calming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debate, he went to a Jerusalem hotel, where he wrote out a statement of resignation. But before he could make it public, Premier Golda Meir, who apparently had become alarmed at Dayan's stubbornness, sent aides to bring him to her office for a long talk. Under her calm persuasion, Dayan cooled off and withdrew his resignation threat...
...Washington Post ran a calm editorial the day after the Montgomery speech, characterizing it as "temperate and thoughtful . . . and in no way menacing on its face." There is indeed plenty to criticize about contemporary U.S. journalism-all the more so because the press and TV make little effort at self-criticism or self-examination. In fact, some of the vulnerable areas were not touched upon by the Vice President...
...Yankee Clipper. At the University of Texas, which he attended on a Navy scholarship, Texas-born Bean made the wrestling and gymnastic teams and met his wife Sue, a college tumbler. Like most of the astronauts, he likes to exercise (his favorite sport: surfing in the Gulf of Mexico). Calm, self-possessed and straightforward, he trained patiently for six years for his first space flight. He and his wife have two children...
...President timed the speech in such a way? The reasoning seemed to be that advance notice would dilute some of the antiwar fervor, put the protesters in an awkward position and buy time. Then the President could deliver a calm, judicious review of his strategy, contrast it with the situation he had inherited and try to win more public understanding...
With all the casual calm of a Grand Canyon-on-your-left announcement, Pilot Donald Cook's voice came over the public-address system: "There's a man here who wants to go somewhere, and he's just chartered himself an airplane." The 39 passengers on TWA Flight 85, over Fresno and bound for San Francisco, suddenly realized that they had joined the growing ranks of the skyjacked. It was not simply the 55th case of skyjacking in 1969; it turned out to be the longest and oddest pirated flight in aviation history...