Word: calms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wage?" (Stay calm, you don't get a wage searching for another job either...
...through it and the fence with bolt snippers. The police don't like the scattered skirmishes--they are caged, turning around to make sure no one is doing anything on the other side, turning their night sticks and batons over and over in their hands. It doesn't calm them down when you demand to know about their potentially mutant grandchildren and tell them, "We're doing this for you." Construction workers jeer--one hurls bricks, another pokes through the fence with a sharpened stick...
...storage lot and sat down around the edge. People were crying; some were shouting. After about 10 minutes people made peace signs with their hands, and everyone went quiet. I linked arms with Carol and a man next to me. My face had stopped burning. I was calm. We sat silently for two minutes and then began to sing softly. Two busloads of national guardsmen marched out to reinforce the line that faced us. I saw Adam and George in the front line and Sarah behind them. I knew they would passively resist dispersal and wanted to join them...
Carter's week of crisis started in a deceptively friendly setting: a town meeting at New York City's Queens College. It was the kind of meet-the-voter outing that he so enjoys and that usually produces nothing more than a picnic of calm discussion about unstormy subjects. But midway through the proceedings, Fred Feingold, a salesman from Hollis Hills, wanted to know whether there would be a danger of another Cuban missile crisis "if nothing works and the [Soviet] troops just stay" in Cuba. The President's reply: "We are now trying through diplomacy...
...deputy, Alexander Haig, Haldeman and I met with Nixon in his hideaway in the Executive Office Building. The President was in good form, calm and analytical. The only symptom of his excitement was that instead of slouching in an easy chair as usual, he was pacing up and down, gesticulating with a pipe on which he was occasionally puffing, something I had never previously seen him do. On one level he was playing MacArthur. On another he was steeling himself for a decision on which his political future would depend...