Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the first few days of the conflict, the situation in Poland appeared relatively calm, but on Wednesday the first confirmed reports of violence began filtering out of the country...
...announced their determination to "dry up the ocean." Bodies still pile up by the roadways each night, and the terror has created tens of thousands of refugees and thousands of would-be refugees who were killed before they could flee. In the capital city of San Salvador, a "superficial calm" prevails, one visitor reports. It is a calm that almost surely will not last past March, when "free elections" are scheduled in the country. Four new right wing parties, including one headed by the grisly Roberto D'Aubuisson, have joined the campaign, which the left is boycotting; the ultrarightists...
...long-playing affair seemed to be getting to Allen. Usually calm and confident, he had begun to show flashes of temper. Small wonder: his career is now clearly on the line. For the time being, Reagan seems determined to make no further move until the Justice Department completes its inquiry. Says one top White House adviser: "The President is very concerned that he be fair to Allen." If Attorney General Smith recommends the appointment of a special prosecutor, Reagan might then ask Allen to resign, although on Sunday Allen said he would merely remain on leave should a special prosecutor...
...proof door that can be installed at the bottom of a regular house door; the cat opens it with a magnetic device worn around its neck. At Animal Kingdom in Chicago, there is the Cat-A-Lac rolling bed that sells for $34 and a kitty rocking horse to calm the freaked-out feline ($49). New York's Felines of Distinction expects to sell more than 2,000 scratching posts this year; among them is a $179 carpeted feline Xanadu called the Kitty Playground. In Los Angeles, home of the stars and the stars' excesses, one store offers...
...fellow with the mustache and the unruly Doberman. He-Mr. Chambers, that is-looks smart enough, but is absolutely impossible on a leash. "That's not a very creditable performance," Woodhouse impatiently tells him on one episode. "You're rather fidgety," she observes on another. "Can you calm yourself...