Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North Sea harbor was calm but cold at 7:50 p.m. as the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise pulled out of the slip at Zeebrugge, Belgium, to begin its regular 85-mile run to the British port of Dover. Darkness had just fallen, and the 543 passengers and crew, most of them British, were settling in for the 4 1/2-hour journey. Some were day trippers returning to Dover after a promotional tour sponsored by the Sun, a London tabloid. Others were British soldiers on leave from their units in West Germany. The ferry was about three- fourths of a mile...
...were running for President?" he was asked. "Anything's more fun than running for President," replied the man who passed up one more try at the top job to settle for what many consider the second most powerful post in Washington. The former Senate majority leader's calm, quip-filled manner contrasted sharply with that of Don Regan, his tightly wound, autocratic predecessor. Said Senior White House Aide Mitch Daniels: "Spring came early this year...
After Baker paid his respects to the leaders of both parties in Congress, Congressman Lynn Martin, vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, declared, "The fever's broken." Even conservative Congressman Jack Kemp observed that Baker had "brought a sense of calm to this place." Aware that right-wingers see him as a moderate too willing to compromise, Baker conceded that he expected "a lot" of pressure from them and added, "It's important that I have an active outreach to them." When Idaho Senator James McClure complained to Baker that the Senate Steering Committee had not met with Reagan...
...would create greater diversity within each house, it would nonetheless allow and even encourage people with similar interests and characteristics to move through the lottery to a house together. That's how it should be Freshmen would have to give up their nightly ice-cream bashes but the resulting calm nerves and diverse houses would more than compensate...
...young friend at his arm questions the act with his eyes. In the brief catalog that accompanies the San Diego show, Curator Arthur Ollman reads this image as a metaphor for Klein the photographer: "The aggressor and the intimate voyeur," Ollman calls him. "Both the provocateur and the calm student of provocation...