Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of the missile crisis, military arguments prevailed: the Soviet Union opted for numbers and quality of strategic nuclear weapons. In ensuing years, whenever opposition to the idea was voiced, someone would be sure to say, "Remember Cuba?" I recall a usually calm Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov declaring emotionally that in the future we would "never tolerate such humiliation as we suffered in the missile crisis." Khrushchev had to forget butter...
...disrupting that nation's socialist system. Still, I was shaken by the brutality of the reprisals. It was in this context that I first heard of Yuri Andropov, our Ambassador to Hungary. A classmate at our embassy in Budapest described how Andropov handled the erupting crisis: "He was so calm, even while the bullets were flying--when everyone else at the embassy felt as if we were in a besieged fortress...
...coping with the biggest industrial accident in history, the gas leak in Bhopal, India, that killed at least 2,500 people. The directors, meeting in an emergency four-hour session at Manhattan's Helmsley Palace Hotel, appointed four members to monitor the situation. Said Chairman Warren Anderson: "They were calm, concerned and interested in not ducking responsibility...
...evidence (like the bloodstains found in Williams' car) are omitted, as are the many contradictions in Williams' testimony. Indeed, Williams' only mistake at the trial appears to be losing his temper on the second day of cross-examination. That is explained as simply a tactical error: after a calm day of testimony, Williams' attorney (Jason Robards) advises him to let the jury "see a real human being up there...
...looting triggered by a 21% rise in fuel prices, the latest austerity measure by the government of Prime Minister Edward Seaga. Protesters blocked roads with debris until broadcast appeals by Seaga and his political opponent, former Prime Minister Michael Manley, ended the disturbances by late Wednesday. Soon after, a calm blanketed the city, broken only by sporadic looting and the sound of bulldozers clearing the wreckage from the streets...