Word: calms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calm is deceptive: lobbyists are already mapping an all-out push when congressional debates begin in earnest in a few weeks. "The battle lines are forming," says an official of a Washington-based energy trade association. "It's just a question of who lobs the first grenade. Everyone hopes someone else will." Adds a gas industry lobbyist: "We're geared for our normal congressional blitz...
Both Washington and Moscow did their best to signal the world that nothing extraordinary had happened. Said Jody Powell, presidential press secretary: "This is not an act of war. It involves violations of maritime law." The Russians also remained studiously calm. Soviet newspapers completely ignored the matter for days, and Kremlin officials were conciliatory in their normal dealings with American diplomats...
...Lions had been tamed, and the only task left for the team was to get a little R and R before today's match against Penn. And perhaps for the crowd, there remained a quick trip to the medicine cabinet for something to calm the ulcers produced by Harvard's clutch victory in yesterday's home opener...
...first public speech since leaving office, Henry Kissinger discreetly took the same view. He declared at Georgetown University: "Negotiations must proceed in a calm, nonconfrontational way, without self-imposed deadlines or rhetorical battles that publicly stake the prestige of both sides." Later, at a party, he bluntly if good-naturedly told a member of the Carter Administration: "Your position is pretty good. Now why don't you just shut up for a while?" By late last week there was ample evidence that the President planned to do just that...
...defender of our precious individual liberties, bouncing up and down on his tiptoes and booming out in a high-pitched, rapid-fire cadence. In the other stood William F. Buckley, author, columnist, and Yale man, pleading--with raised eyebrows--for a decent and self-governed society in his cool, calm, collected style...