Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once a witness to what you label a "rogue wind" in your article about the sinking of the Marques [NATION, June 18]. I was standing a watch belowdecks during a relatively calm stretch of weather after we had been forced to put to sea because of an approaching hurricane. Suddenly the ship, the U.S.S. Catskill, a converted cruiser, heeled over noticeably to starboard, as if pushed by a giant hand. Everything not tied down crashed against the starboard bulkhead. The phenomenon was not repeated, and we suffered no casualties or damages. If the ship had been under full sail, nothing...
...Democratic leaders search for compromises, so far without any success. Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona, who was chairman of an ad hoc committee looking into Jackson's grievances, wistfully noted last week, "I want a nice, boring convention. It can't be too boring for me." A calm convention, however, would seem somehow unDemocratic. It also seems unlikely. -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Sam Allis/North Oaks and David Beckwith/Washington
...shielded from unfriendly fire by what amounts to a Saudi umbrella. Kuwait has no oil pipeline, and the Saudi shield could be vital in ensuring the safety of tankers and thus protecting the country's oil revenues, which constitute about half of its gross domestic product. To calm the apprehensions of customers, the Kuwaitis have already offered to use their own tankers to carry their oil to commercial ships anchored outside the gulf...
...handsome new house in Paradise Valley, overlooking Phoenix, is calm now when calm is needed. There is a secretary to intercept phone calls and a maid to chase dust balls. Bombeck does not even know if there is a septic tank. Bill and Erma have separate offices, and she is in hers by 8 each morning, after walking a "killer mile" or puffing along with a videotaped exercise routine. At her desk she is all business. When she has time, she weaves twigs and bits of string into a play and says that the first act is in workable order...
...Pittura Colta is a mere shell, and its vaunted erudition is as thin as a museum postcard. All it retains from the beaux-arts tradition is the desire to get the highlight on the Spartan's backside right-not that it always does so. It has the calm not of classical elevation but of exhausted decadence. The Venetian setting is unfair to it, for anyone can take the water-bus back to the Scuola di San Rocco and see what Tintoretto could do with the human figure. The right place for it is Las Vegas, among the fountains...