Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moves helped restore calm to what has traditionally been the Middle East's most stable nation. But the outburst caught the government by surprise and signaled that something more was awry than momentary resentment over price hikes imposed two weeks...
While Sunday's council meeting on ROTC was interrupted by vocal outbursts from activists, Wednesday's forum was marked more by calm discussion than hostile bickering...
...time my parents reacted to Blankie's disappearance as any well-restrained, calm and rational parents would. They bought approximately 157 different blankets/sheets/towels costing more than $2000 and tried to convince me that each was the real Blankie. But I stayed loyal and rejoiced when Blankie was found, soiled but untorn...
...died after gangs of Azerbaijanis hunted down Armenians in the Azerbaijan city of Sumgait. The authorities immediately imposed an 11 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, a native of Georgia, canceled a trip to East and West Germany and flew to Tbilisi, where he appealed for calm. A government commission was set up to investigate the deaths, and Georgian party boss Dzhumber Patiashvili resigned along with two other members of the republic's ruling Politburo. In an emotional speech reported on Vremya, the nightly news program, Patiashvili had already admitted that "this is our mutual grief...
Dead and injured fans lay strewn across the field. After calm had been restored, Football Association officials promised a "full investigation" into the tragedy. Among the questions: Why did police fail to control the overflow crowd? And who authorized the opening of the gate? Said British Sport Minister Colin Moynihan: "This is a tragic day for sport, football and the country as a whole...