Word: calmness
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...policeman who instinctively identifies with the criminal he is pursuing. He is also embroiled in a jurisdictional dispute over the case, which frustrates his pursuit of it. He's a busy guy, our Vincke, always in danger of losing the cool reasonableness that, because it matches Ledda's calm but murderous inventiveness, is his largest strength...
...been up for two nights trying to care for the sick and keep order, "couldn't understand that we had to get the sick people out first." Frightened, the small band of firefighters called in ten New Orleans levee police with shotguns and semi-automatic weapons to calm the crowd. But once the situation was diffused, half the cops had to respond to other calls...
...problem for him. On the old schedule - Likud primaries had been scheduled for spring, ahead of a November general election - the electorate would have a better chance of knowing whether Sharon or Netanyahu had been right about terrorism and Gaza. Currently, Hamas says it'll maintain the "calm" it promised to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas until January. Unless there's a big wave of terror, Sharon won't be compelled to send troops back into Gaza, which would of course be a measure for many Israeli voters of the success or failure of the "disengagement." There's still, of course...
...three" anchors was over. But he was the least typical of the celebrity anchors. You watched Tom Brokaw for warm confidence, Dan Rather for folksy feistiness. But you watched Jennings for the news. That is what his viewers saw in his marathon Sept. 11 coverage--a calm, cool guide who put the story before the persona, who knew that we needed not his emotion but his information, who was anything but weak. --By James Poniewozik
...made a beautiful place, beautiful in spirit." So the Hilburgs say they will do anything peaceable and lawful that will stop the clock, but nothing more. They obeyed when the Gush Katif council quoted from Isaiah: "You shall triumph by stillness and quiet; your victory shall come about through calm and confidence...