Word: calms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four employees and began heaping the cash into a nearby Wells Fargo truck. Within minutes they had stashed $7,896,000, leaving some $12 million behind. The truck was later found abandoned under the Brooklyn Bridge. Said New York City Chief of Detectives Richard Nicastro: "They were very calm. And they did it in a very cool and collected manner...
...working, people-loving extroverts, but it takes a burning intensity of ambition and ego to seek the presidency today, to undergo the brutally long campaigning, the probing eye of the press. There are surely tensions between the driving purpose inside the man and the requirement for surface affability and calm. Jimmy Carter was something of a loner even when he played host to several hundred Georgians on the South Lawn of the White House. The Reagans, with all their graceful entertaining and the President's old-shoe geniality, are said to be "very private people." The ability to tune...
...rankled the G.O.P., which argues that a ratio of 3 to 2 would be more in line with overall party representation in the chamber. Last week that resentment flared over the contested Indiana seat that committee Democrats declared belonged to Frank McCloskey, one of their own. Even usually calm and gentle souls like Wyoming's Dick Cheney declared war and kept the House sleepless and fuming through Monday night and in parliamentary uproar all week long...
PEOPLE in Chicago must not be very intelligent. No member of the police force is capable of uttering either a calm sentence or a sentence devoid of profanity. Translations of Spanish interjections such as "diarrhea de boca" demonstrate the eloquence of the gangsters as well...
...wrong. I am usually very calm, a rational person, not prone to fits. Really. But there is something about a New England winter that makes me really desperate for warm, sunny weather. And I think that five months of freezing rain makes most people feel the same way. In fact almost all of us display a few of the symptoms of spring fever. It is, after all, called spring finals. And we do have our spring formals just about...