Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shultz doesn't doesn't make make every every issue a test of his manhood," says a top White House aide. Whereas the former four-star general was flamboyant, emo tional and highly charged, Shultz, a com bat captain in the Marines who became an academic, is calm, collegial and reflective. His stolid demeanor seems more suited to absorb the bureaucratic shocks than Haig's thin skin. Says a senior State Department official: "Haig's style had be gun to be an issue in itself. Six weeks of Shultz have turned down the volume...
...Henry has a tough time with the morning after. Says a friend: "It's best you avoid Clay when he's hung over. You go in at your own risk. He butts his head against the fence so hard sometimes that we have to go out and calm him down." Usually, that is enough to sober up Clay Henry, a 130-lb. black mountain goat...
Calvin Coolidge shows conflicting moods and feelings; the bottom half is precise and calm, but the top half reflects an impatient, unhappy individual. Herbert Hoover demonstrates incredible motivation, but the coiled web tells us he feels trapped, and the overlapping of the designs suggests that he is a bit befuddled and confused. John Kennedy's graphic movement indicates a superior intellect. Obviously he had bad feelings toward the first, messily drawn house, which may be the White House. His feelings are moderate toward the middle house, and truly homey toward the third. Perhaps he felt some confusion about...
There have been signs that some fac tions in Solidarity have reluctantly begun to take to heart the government's tough talk. A bulletin issued this month by the leadership of an underground Solidarity chapter at the Lenin shipyard at Gdansk called for calm and restraint so that the government would have time to honor its commitment to continue reform. Economic hardships have clearly blunted the enthusiasm of many supporters for a confrontation with the regime...
...Justice Warren Burger and four others voted to overturn a stay that had been issued by an appeals judge earlier in the day. About 45 minutes later, that news reached Coppola at Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. At 11:18 p.m., the prisoner walked 30 paces and, with outward calm, sat down in an oak electric chair built by inmates 74 years ago. At 11:27, after two 55-second jolts of electricity, Coppola died...