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Word: calmly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge police reported no serious incidents or confrontations again yesterday. "The city has been calm since the fight," city manager James L. Sullivan said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Rindge and Latin School To Reopen This Monday; Officials Increase Security | 1/11/1980 | See Source »

Officials, fearing that some youths might try to retaliate for the slaying, watched the city anxiously. So far Cambridge has been calm--nothing more than recial epithets scrawled on walls and a round of engry meetings...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Scary Time | 1/11/1980 | See Source »

...while many students will be working to keep things calm, the high school has been plagued in the past by undeniable racial tensions...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Scary Time | 1/11/1980 | See Source »

...school, which is located on Broadway one block east of Harvard Yard, has been closed until at least Thursday morning "to give things time to calm down," school superintendent William Lannon said last night...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Local Youth Killed in Fight; City Is Quiet After Stabbing | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

Everyone has remarked on how rapidly calm returned to political and academic life by the early 1970s, after the war had ended and a president resigned. But the calm was, in sense, misleading, a surface tranquillity indicating spent passions but not altered felling. There was no reversal in the low public confidence in institutions; indeed, many suffered further losses in legitimacy. Behavior become more conventional but beliefs remained unconventional...

Author: By James Q. Wilson, | Title: A Middle-Aged Decade | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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