Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Ronald Reagan talked successful turkey last week in the White House Rose Garden. Presented with a live 50-lb. bird that squawked and flapped and nearly drove members of the National Turkey Federation to cover, Reagan hovered anxiously until calm was restored. Then the President, who had scored zero on a recent turkey shoot, patted his gift and dressed him down: "Look," he said, "I had a chance to shoot a bunch of you the other day and I didn...
...soon discovered that life with Liz, however, was an adventure for which he was unprepared: "Children, pets, servants, minor problems transformed into major tragedies, confusion, chaos, everything at fever pitch . . . Living with her was like living with a hurricane; each storm built in intensity, then subsided into an eerie calm as the eye passed, only to begin all over again...
Like many other dealers, Steinberg started as a pot smoker in his home town (Carpentersville, Ill., pop. 23,000), trying to finance his recreational use. The business seemed so easy that it just grew. Throughout their perilous escapades, Stein berg and friends remained calm, peaceful, fun-loving, devil-may-care. They never used force. If an aide was kidnaped, they paid the ransom. If a distributor burned them on a payoff, they simply did not deal with him again. Their mothers, aunts, wives, girlfriends were recruited to rent safe houses in Miami suburbs for storing drugs or to ride along...
Three years ago, Captain Abruzzo had piloted Double Eagle II across the Atlantic, a pioneering trip that was half as far and twice as calm. This time, he said, "things were very, very bad." The 26-story helium balloon leaked throughout the 5,070-mile journey. Ice built up on its thin skin, and thunderstorms wildly buffeted the craft. Losing altitude prematurely, the crew worried about not making landfall. In the crash landing, Aoki was briefly knocked unconscious. But they were down, no one was seriously hurt, and Abruzzo was asked once again why men do such things...
...describes in chilling terms in the current Atlantic Monthly just whom the plan benefits--the "hogs" of American big business were "really feeding" on a diet of special tax breaks. At the same time, the measly reductions in personal income taxes were serving as a convenient Trojan Horse to calm the American people while the richest raked in the cash...