Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presidents almost never talk openly about how it might be to face a nuclear salvo from the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan did last week. "Think of it," he said in a low voice, seated in front of a wood fire in the calm of the Oval Office. "You're sitting at that desk." He pointed across the room at his working chair. Only the muted crackling of burning logs and the tick of the old grandfather clock broke the silence. Reagan's eyes were squinted, his brow tense. "The word comes that they're (the missiles) on their...
...sooner had calm returned to Noumea than violence broke out in La Foa, a community about 55 miles northwest of the capital. Gendarmes surrounded an abandoned farmhouse in which Kanak Leader Eloi Machoro and 50 of his followers were staying. Machoro and an aide were killed in a gunfight...
...position was a study in calm. A year or two ago, the Reagan Administration might have registered outrage at a violation of NATO airspace by a Soviet missile. But with the Geneva talks about to get under way, the Administration did not wish to make the negotiations any more difficult than they already would be. Pentagon Spokesman Michael Burch emphasized that the matter was an "isolated" event. Said he: "Let's not make more of this than it's worth...
From a similar window 134 years ago, Arnold beheld his progressive, aggressive world and began serenely: "The sea is calm tonight./ The tide is full, the moon lies fair/ Upon the Straits . . . Come to the window, sweet is the night air!" A long, successful life lay ahead of him. His new bride was near by. But by the end of the stanza, he was hearing the "eternal note of sadness" in the sea and the rolling of the pebbles, and by the second stanza, the "ebb and flow/ Of human misery" was overwhelming. The final lines of Dover Beach...
Several times in this century, war, crisis, social change and activism have been followed by reactionary backlash, and then by a period of consolidation and relative calm and prosperity. If this historical pattern means anything, the current mood is not a repudiation of social progress, but rather a signal that certain important social battles have been won and now, in a moment of calm, are being digested. "This relative calm has little to do with Reagan's conservatism," says Alexander. "Rather, it reflects the institutionalizing of many of the things he has been against for years...