Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centerfield." For Lewis, track became a comfort station, a self-sufficient arena where the contestants are allowed to be withdrawn. "I was never a fighter when I was young," he says. "I was shy, so I always found another way of getting around a tough situation. I stayed calm...
...should tear through the Olympics, Moses feels the competition gaining. "Now when I run, people stop and tune in on the race. There's more pressure on me, of course. I have something to lose." But he is a star of the meet at last, cool and calm...
...concentrating on sports medicine and psychology. In the meantime, money obviously is not a great motivation and, surprisingly, in his analysis winning is not either. He takes what he calls "a Zenistic view." A single well-executed shot is what stirs him. "You have to be psyched up, yet calm and as motionless as possible. Timing is vital. You shoot between heartbeats. My heartbeat throws my aim clear off the target. Then you have to read the wind. That's the worst four-letter word in archery. With all those variables to consider and compensate for, an excellent shot...
...movie The High and the Mighty, a calm and courageous John Wayne pilots a propeller-driven DC-4 airliner to a safe landing in San Francisco even though two of the plane's four engines have stopped working. Aircraft experts say the chance that two engines would independently break down on one of today's jetliners is only one in a billion hours of flight. For that reason, the Federal Aviation Administration arrived at a preliminary proposal last week that would allow commercial jets with only two engines to make most transatlantic flights. As of now, such routes...
Every year before its summer recess the U.S. Supreme Court caps months of work with a final deluge of opinions that appears to undermine the institution's image as a temple of calm reflection. Whether the cause is the court's work load or the Justices' inclination to be dilatory, this year has been no different. At the start of last week, the court still had 43 undecided cases, almost one-quarter of the full term's output. By the end of last week, 20 decisions had been announced in a mountain of opinions, concurrences...