Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further. "By what morality were you acting, Mr. American Secretary of Defense?" he asked rhetorically before a campaign crowd. "Haven't you heard of 1.5 million little Jewish children who were thrown into the gas chambers?" Weinberger, who in fact had not urged stopping aid to Israel, issued a calm statement saying that he was "sorry that Mr. Begin is proceeding on an erroneous assumption...
...nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nimitz, at 91,400 tons the world's biggest warship, sailed imperiously in the calm Atlantic waters 60 miles off the Florida coast. On its 4½-acre deck, even as midnight approached, sailors and their officers worked amid a terrific din of pumps and engines and catapults. The ship was headed into a balmy wind, and a soft mist hung in the night air. Thirteen of the carrier's jets were still out on a routine training run. The pilot of one, an electronic radar-jamming EA-6B Prowler, had his plane a scant...
...Elysee Palace last week, the Socialist seemed perfectly at ease with the august French presidential style that Charles de Gaulle once described as being above the "petty elements of the everyday political fray." In a week dominated by largely symbolic meetings and gestures, President Francois Mitterrand helped calm jittery nerves at home and abroad by projecting the image of the measured statesman rather than the Socialist firebrand his critics have portrayed...
Wyszynski remained under house arrest for the next three years. The ordeal ended in 1956, when Wladyslaw Gomulka came to power after a national upheaval and released the Primate in a bid for popular support. Wyszynski responded with a public call for "national unity and calm" that helped restore order and averted a threatened Soviet invasion. There followed a period of precarious tactical cooperation between the Cardinal and the Communist leader. Then, as always, Wyszynski's goal was to push for more freedom without precipitating retaliation by the Communists that would cancel his gains...
Administrators who are counting on time to calm this flurry of activity are deluding themselves, gay student leaders say, pointing to the current shift of leadership from seniors to freshmen and sophomores. The current president of GSA is a sophomore and the two co-chairs of GOOD are freshmen. Gladsjo points out that because GSA had such a strong presence on campus when she was a freshman, she felt comfortable plunging into gay politics almost immediately. At the same time, changing social attitudes have made it easier for people to come out earlier in their lives, Gladsjo says, noting that...