Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exclaim, "Why do you people insist on talking about housing all of the time? It's only December for God's sake. We can't do anything about it for another couple of months. We can't do anything about it then either. All of you should just calm down and think about something that we can actually have an effect on--like nuclear disarmament or Third World human rights violations. Read a book if you don't like activism. Play Nintendo. I don't care. Just leave me alone...
Adamec made the pledges in a meeting with the opposition Civic Forum movement after 11 straight days of unprecedented protest in Czechoslovakia. Millions of workers observed a two-hour general strike Monday, but the streets were quiet yesterday because the Civic Forum asked for calm...
...news conference, prominent dissident Jiri Dienstbier read a letter saying Husak's resignation "would calm the situation down...
...Calm had returned by the time Pope John Paul II appeared. In the first major papal statement on AIDS, the Pontiff called on governments "to develop and carry out a worldwide plan to combat AIDS and drug addiction." He urged patients not to despair and condemned "every form of discrimination" against them. But he warned against "morally illicit" methods of preventing AIDS -- a clear allusion to condoms -- and spoke of "abuse of sexuality," referring to homosexuality, as a cause of the spreading of AIDS. He said the crisis results from "immunodeficiency" in values...
...President doesn't comment on football games, said a White House spokesperson. Meanwhile, the President offered comment on the other superpower conflict currently raging by sending a cable to President of the Soviet Union Mikhail S. Gorbachev expressing hopes for "a calm and peaceful period of change" in Eastern Europe...