Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around that island of relative calm the battle surged. Would-be occupiers tramped through marshes on the sourth side of the plant and sidestepped family gardens on the western edge, while blockaders piled up trees and parts of old cars in front of the North and South Gates on Route One. But the members of the Caterpillar and New Wave clusters sat all day in rows 15 yards apart down a quarter mile of road and waited, unsure of quite what they were waiting...
...favorite vacation home of 19th century millionaires who came to the village to take the waters for their health and race horses for their entertainment. More than a century after America's first organized race meetings were staged in Saratoga, the spa remains an oasis of calm, a place where gentlemen and their ladies come to place a sporting wager on the performance of prime horseflesh...
Cuban leaders have also been trying to calm fears that some of the refugees may be criminals. Actually, violence of another kind is already established here. Omega 7, a clandestine anti-Castro group reputedly based in Union City, has claimed responsibility for 20 bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey during the past five years. "What happens if some of the refugees coming are Castro agents?" asks a middle-aged businessman. "There will be shootouts all over the place...
...inevitable question lingered: After Tito, what? For months, Western leaders had barely disguised their apprehension that possible instability following Tito's death could inspire the Soviets to try to regain control over a onetime satellite that had escaped Moscow's orbit. But on the surface, at least, calm and order prevailed...
John Hollingsworth does "rebirthing," a method of "releasing old patterns" by dealing with long-suppressed aspects of the trauma of birth. Leonard Orr discovered the technique in California and taught people to lie face down in a hot tub, breathing through a snorkel and maintaining a calm mindset. "After 20 to 25 minutes they'd go into a kind of fetal position and their breath would get very labored," Hollingsworth explains. This typically led to an ecstatic "rebirth experience" which was for many people "too powerful, too much of an accelerated growth." Hollingsworth now uses a "dry rebirthing technique" involving...