Word: calmly
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...Gooden's most eloquent admirers consecutively struck out Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons and Cronin in the 1934 All-Star game: Carl Hubbell, 82. "The most amazing part of the whole damn thing is he's so cool and calm," Hubbell says. "You used to have to get broken into it. A lot of pitchers seem older than their years today, but Gooden most of all. Also, he's got one of the best curves I ever saw--he throws it so hard! The damn thing breaks nearly from the guy's shoulder to the ground." Evidently, Hubbell has been studying...
...Still no U.S. response. At the White House and Pentagon, officials wondered what Kelso was waiting for. Poindexter, however, was calm. He puffed away at his pipe, hardly saying a word. "Poindexter did not call the fleet commander even once during the entire crisis," said one White House staffer. "That would only have increased the burden and would have caused more tension." Poindexter speculated that Kelso would launch his counterattack at night. At the White House, Don Regan was edgy. He called Weinberger and Crowe to come over and explain the delay. Their response was the same as Poindexter...
About 150 demonstrators and 100 police remained after the buses left, but the campus returned to its usual calm. Colvig said some 50 demonstrators who could not fit on the buses were photographed by police and will be subject to arrest later...
...Tokyo, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone urged his Cabinet to devise emergency measures to aid the worst-hit Japanese firms and pledged to do more to calm down the dollar-yen exchange rate. On the following day, the Bank of Japan briefly intervened in the foreign-exchange markets, buying dollars to support the value of the U.S. currency. But no one could be sure that the bank would succeed, and a sense of helplessness came over many Japanese executives. Said an official of NEC, a leading Japanese electronics manufacturer: "It is like groping our way in the dark. All we want...
Undergraduate use of the clinic's counseling services has been consistently growing through the years, according to Catlin. He says that the relatively calm political climate of the past decade has spawned the increase in the number of Harvard students seeking counseling. "In the '60s people could deal with their problems by externalizing them," Catlin says, "I know that here in the '60s, when there was a lot of activity, we had very little business. Activity is the antidote to anxiety...