Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also journeyed on the open road, but on a far more expansive one. Encompassing both adventure and introspection, he has recorded journeys from Victoria Station to Siberia, and back, in The Old Railway Bazaar; and from South Boston to the other up of America in The Patagonian Express. Calm and without the intensity of Kerouac, both books afford homebodies a glimpse of the world away from the crackerjack, automatic world of T.V. sets and interest rates...
...whole region to them. The French sold out to Spain for £24,000, and Port Louis was renamed Puerto de la Soledad. The British, expelled by Spanish troops in 1770 from Port Egmont, talked fiercely of war. Or at least some London politicians did; the government tried to calm the public belligerence by hiring London's most talented polemicist, Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson obliged with a pamphlet calling the Falklands "an island which not even the southern savages have dignified with habitation." It was a place fit only for smugglers and buccaneers, he wrote, and any British garrison sent...
...Arabs in June 1967, the low hill inside Jerusalem's historic walled city has remained largely free of violence. But on Easter Sunday, as thousands of Christian pilgrims flocked into the Old City, a lone gunman, dressed in an olive-green Israeli military uniform, turned the uneasy calm into a day of bloodshed at the Temple Mount and throughout the Israeli-occupied West Bank...
...event that broke the Easter calm began at 9:10 a.m., when a man later identified by Israeli authorities as Allen Goodman, 37, an American immigrant who appeared to be an Israeli army reservist, approached the Band Ghanim gate to the Temple Mount. He was carrying a sleeping bag, a handbag and an M-16 automatic rifle. Arab guards, alarmed at the sight of the weapon, shouted Mam 'nua! (Forbidden!). Goodman opened fire, wounding one guard and hitting another with the butt of his rifle...
...they are watching the most famous episode of Lucy, the birth in 1953 of Little Ricky. Frantic father-to-be Ricky Ricardo wants to cancel a performance of his nightclub act to join his wife at the hospital; Lucy, whose antic zaniness has been transmuted into the madonna-like calm then attributed to every expectant mother, sends him off to work with the unchallengeable claim: "You can't be where I am, anyway." And sure enough, when he takes her to the maternity ward, a nurse insists that the Ricardos kiss goodbye in the lobby. No husband is allowed...