Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Profuse swearing and the demise of more than one T-200 racquet thrown by an angry Blue. Devil greeted the men's tennis team on its trip to North Carolina yesterday. But this unique brand of Southern hospitality failed to ruffle the Crimson's calm as Harvard left the courts with a 6-3 victory...
TIME Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey, who has been reporting on Washington for 24 years, notes that calm prevailed during Dwight Eisenhower's several hospitalizations, Richard Nixon's phlebitis, and even in the far graver crisis of the Kennedy assassination. Says Sidey: "We have sometimes overplayed the difficulty of running the Government...
Vice President Bush, too, seems sure to gain in clout because of the calm manner in which he filled in for the President at Cabinet meetings and ceremonial functions. His demeanor, neither pushy nor retiring, impressed even some Reaganites who had considered him a mushy moderate. Said one: "He has been impressive...
...rushed upstairs to the briefing room and tried to convey a sense of calm. In stead, he was perspiring, his voice shook, and his hands trembled. He assured reporters that there was no command vacancy, that communications were open with the Vice President, and that no spe- cial military-alert measures were necessary. But then he blundered. Asked, "Who's making the decisions?" he replied...
...president should tolerate a power-hungry Secretary of State unable to see the need for calm loyalty--or reasoned dissent on real issues--in a world where saber-rattling can easily lead to war. If President Reagan had wanted an ambitious and militaristic secretary hell-bent on bolstering his own-influence, he'd have chosen Woody Hayes or J.R. Ewing '54. As soon as the President recovers, we urge that he begin looking for a Secretary of State who can tell the difference between self-interest and the national interest...