Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Turkey, our historic enemy. That fact did not allow us to think about secession. But in the past two years, we have had a crisis of faith in Moscow as the Azerbaijanis continue to harass us. Our appeals to the center were answered with formal notes, requests for calm and rationality. They should have said, 'Let's figure out a compromise between Armenians, Azerbaijanis and the federation.' If the union does not defend the people of Nagorno-Karabakh ((an Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan)) against violence, then the question arises, Can we be a part of the Soviet Union? The center...
...Calm down, calm down, calm down," he ordered. Those who opposed his plan, he said, were "trying to sow mistrust." This was no time for "cheap demagoguery." He had contemplated not running in the next presidential election, he said, but decided that to withdraw now would be cowardly. The national interest demanded "quick action on this matter." The chastened legislators listened well: they voted 347-24 to pass the bill and send it on to the Congress of People's Deputies for final approval...
...calm Clark gave short, measured responses tomost of the student questions, and afterwardscalled it "a good exchange of views." "I thoughtit was fun," he said...
With seven minutes left in the half, Dartmouth's swarming defense was seemingly too much for Harvard and Crimson Coach Kathy Delaney Smith called a timeout to calm her players down...
Shahak cited many examples of government-sanctioned human rights violations committed by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank region. He said members of the Israeli army are allowed to slap Palestinian women to calm them and shut off electric power to Palestinian homes...