Word: calms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every car in sight, pulled down statues, and sacked Macao's City Hall. The next day-early last week-5,000 took to the streets, and before order was restored eight were dead. At week's end De Carvalho had accepted the five demands and Macao was calm again, though the nervousness and unrest remained...
...Outwardly, Jordan's frontier with Israel seemed calm enough. Gunfire along the border had died away. In Jordan's frontier towns of Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah, old men puffed their snake-stemmed hookahs outside coffeehouses, and traffic beeped its way back to normal. But beneath the surface, tensions were tight. "The whole place," said one of King Hussein's former Cabinet ministers, "is ready to blow...
Robert Drew culled one hour from the staggering total of 55 he had shot, managed to catch the frantic, discombobulated rehearsals of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra; the suave calm of Met General Manager Rudolf Bing; the comic pathos of Soprano Leontyne Price as she got trapped in a prop pyramid before 3,800 people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even...
Saturday's loss to Army snipped a long string of 28 dual meet victories and it may have saken up a few trackmen. But at yesterday's practice everyone seemed calm and confident...
...make up only 8% of the population, control most of the island's wealth. Easternmost of the West Indies, Barbados is kept at a comfortable 70° to 85° year round by the trade winds, has fine beaches-with Atlantic surf on one side and the calm, clear Caribbean on the other. The island's great hope is that these attractions will bring enough tourists to offset its dependence on sugar. The annual influx of tourists has risen from 25,000 in 1958 to 67,000, and is increasing by more than 15% a year...