Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both Paris and London and served as TIME's Rome bureau chief from 1973 to 1979. He has been a writer and editor in the World section for the past two years. After working on this week's cover story, Bonfante concluded that the French are "outwardly calm, but actually excited about their political sea change...
December 17. This calm continued through the 14th to 16th December inclusive. During this trying state of affairs the mate proposed reducing our allowance of provisions one-half whilst the calms continued. We could not have reduced our allowance of water for already we had not sufficient to keep our mouths in moisture. We frequently applied salt water to our parched lips with the hope to quell the fever that raged there but that only served to increase our thirst so much that some were compelled to seek relief in their own urine. Our sufferings during these hot days almost...
...diligent and impeccably tailored Socialist leader Pierre Mauroy, who is now the new President's Premier. If anything, Mitterrand's assessment rings even more true today. While Mitterrand stayed secluded, Mauroy (pronounced Mawr-wah) led the party's campaign, winning the confidence of voters with his calm advocacy of socialism and the image of a practical man more interested in solving problems than in spinning utopian visions. Says Mauroy: "To change society, you have to reject the illusion of revolution...
...late 19th century, AMAX (formerly American Metal Climax Inc.), the world's largest molybdenum producer, began staking claims to the deposits, as well as buying some of the privately held land outright. Things have not been the same in Crested Butte since. AMAX went to unusual lengths to calm local fears, even hiring psychologists to study the social effects of the influx of an estimated 1,500 workers and their families into the area. Even so, Crested Butte decided it had to stop the earthmovers...
...early 1970s, Lichtenstein was fond of quoting Matisse, that supreme artificer of images denoting calm and luxurious revery. Run through Lichtenstein's mill, however, the images lost this aura entirely, becoming stark, neutral or even disagreeable. The three fish in Still Life with Goldfish, 1972, a broad transcription from one of Matisse's still lifes of 60 years before, wear dyspeptic expressions and seem not at all pleased with the painting of a giant Lichtenstein golf ball on the wall behind them...