Word: calmly
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Furthermore, Chang believes that Martin acts as a "stabilizing force." Coach Ihsan Gurdal, who played for the Turkish national team, agrees: "Brad is very consistent and calm, very much in control. He never loses his confidence. He is the one that talks sense when we are in a tough position, and he calms the young kids...
...next week, the national implications of his victory are far less important than the local ones. Whatever influence he may hope to have beyond the city-and whatever effect his election may have for black political power-will depend on whether he is able to fill the potholes and calm the fears of Chicago's prickly neighborhoods. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Christopher Ogden and Don Winbush/Chicago
Taking advantage of the first calm waters in three weekends of rowing, the Harvard lights grabbed a halflength lead after 500 meters and gradually extended it over the 2000-meter course Navy never mounted a challenge as the Crimson boat finished...
Crew officials at UNH told reporters yesterday that the weather there was sunny and calm when a small flotilla of eight racing shells carrying 68 students, accompanied by coaches in three powered launches set out down the Oyster River which leads to the Bay. The squall that swamped the boats, the officials said came suddenly and without warning Officers at the Coast Guard station in Portsmouth, N.H. said, however, that gale warnings had been in effect earlier in the day and small craft were advised not to be on the water when the accident occurred...
...logic then, as now, was what might be called the Doctrine of Overriding Outrage. This doctrine holds that the issue at hand-U.S. policy in El Salvador, for example-is too important to be left to the flaccid (two sides to every question) processes of free speech and calm discussion. Why tolerate ideas that are so obscenely wrong? History is not high tea. As the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse wrote in his essay Repressive Tolerance, under the free-speech practices of a liberal regime, "the stupid opinion is treated with the same respect as the intelligent one, the misinformed...