Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday, the anniversary day that Solidarity had set for a national protest, Warsaw was generally calm, but military forces were again seen everywhere. Helmeted police using shields and batons dispersed crowds that gathered in Warsaw's Old Town and on the steps of the Church of the Holy Cross to talk and to sing the national anthem. By 7 p.m. the streets were empty. That night, in its first admission of casualties, Warsaw radio reported in somber tones that seven Poles had been killed and hundreds wounded in a clash between miners, fighting with picks and axes, and troops...
...plea for calm was issued by the government in Walesa's name, but few Poles seemed to believe that he had authorized it. Informal cells of worried activists were forming in the capital. One such group was operating out of a bakery in downtown Warsaw. If any of the cell's dozen members failed to show up at least once every three days, the sales clerk was to alert one member, who would pass the word along...
...second day of martial law, the capital exuded an eerie calm. Shoppers were out early, as usual, queueing up at bakeries, butcher shops and vegetable stands, where few goods were available, also as usual. A Solidarity banner, evidently neglected by police, continued to hang bravely from a building on Paris Commune Place. Young mothers dropped off their children at nursery schools-the only educational institutions left open in all of Poland...
...military, police, fire and civil defense services, as well as thousands of workers newly "militarized" to deter them from striking, will be subject to penalties, including death, applied to soldiers on active service in time of war. The armed forces are authorized to use "coercion to restore calm, law-and-order...
Mitterrand tries to calm the critics of his new economic order