Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within minutes, city officials were on alert, patrolling the city in a grimfaced effort to calm racial tensions before they flared into large-scale fighting...
...Mount St. Helens area for more than ten years, said he began to feel the enormity of the disaster days later: "I've skied there, hiked there, worked there as a fire watch. Just last Saturday I was visiting old Harry Truman. Spirit Lake was absolutely calm, and Harry was running his lawn sprinklers. Now it's all gone...
...down and had to leave with a protective escort. "What the hell are you doing here?" one angry black screamed at Young as he arrived for the meeting in Liberty City. "The only time we see y'all so-called leaders is when you come here trying to calm somebody down...
...Seoul, meanwhile, an apprehensive calm prevailed. The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shin Hyon Hwack abruptly resigned, taking the blame for "failure to maintain domestic calm." It was succeeded by a new one headed by Park Choong Hoon, a retired major general and administrator credited with having been a force behind South Korea's economic development. On Tuesday the Martial Law Command announced that it had decided to close down the National Assembly indefinitely. Opposition members assembled on the grass in a kind of sit-down strike. All 43 of them offered their resignations to the floor leader. Grumbled...
Even while the conferees were acting, foreign oil producers were once again showing the U.S. just how vulnerable it is to the pricing whims of the 13-nation OPEC cartel. After a four-month calm, price-raise fever broke out anew among cartel members, as one nation after another began tacking $1 and $2 premiums to the cost of various grades of crude...