Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Team." Will the political handlers, consultants, producers and scriptwriters-a flourishing industry now in league with the media-turn this campaign into a litany of despair, with each candidate exaggerating America's problems in order to sell his own solutions? Pray for a triumph of calm consideration and enlightenment in the Iowa experience...
...rhetoric. On occasion he can become testy, as he did while interviewing a California district attorney who jailed a twelve-year-old for refusing to testify against her stepfather; but when he does let his feelings show, he quickly apologizes on air. His buttoned-down style and unflappable calm could make him seem dull, but he works with express-train speed and almost never lets an interview become repetitive. He thinks faster and more subtly than most other television reporters, yet always does his homework and never seems to be using his wit just to score points. Well versed...
Would that they could all stay the storm gathering around them as easily as they calm the savage breasts of the stokers in the boiler room, for whom they stage an impromptu concert. All of these events may be read as portents. The deck is soon crowded with Serbian refugees, some of them revolutionaries, and their presence brings down upon the Gloria N. an Austro-Hungarian battleship and a noisy climax to what can best be described as an exercise in, perhaps even a parody of, the opera buffa...
While gunfire sounded, police and army troops in Jeeps and armored personnel carriers fanned out through the city to quell the "bread riot." The show of force finally brought an uneasy calm, but only after more than 50 demonstrators and bystanders were killed. Then, in a dramatic five-minute radio and television broadcast, Bourguiba announced that he was reversing the price hike. The cost of bread would drop immediately from 18? to 8?, he declared, while previous increases for such staples as pasta and flour would be reduced as well. "We are going back to where we were," he said...
...life. Robert J. Murray has had first-hand experience with national security, from the Marine Corps through a string of positions in the Department of Defense. But only three months after entering the relative calm of academia by taking a job at the Kennedy School of Government, Murray was called back out to the front lines, this time to Beirut...