Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caustic tone of the session was set by New York Senator Jacob Javits, a firm backer of Israel, who announced on Feb. 25 that he would be seeking re-election in the fall. Said Javits: "Now, Mr. Secretary, did anyone ever read this resolution?" Vance's calm reply: "Of course they...
...right. " Beheshti has apparently retained that ability to endorse seemingly contradictory views without committing himself to either one. He is an expert equivocator. During a televised debate with critics of the election process, Beheshti somehow managed to parry their points-and then lectured them piously on the need for calm in political debates. Said one acquaintance: "He has always been like that, impossible to nail down...
...Jimmy Carter stepped before the television cameras in the East Room of the White House last Friday, his task was not just to proclaim another new anti-inflation program but to calm a national alarm that had begun to border on panic. Inflation and interest rates, both topping 18%, are so far beyond anything that Americans have experienced in peacetime-and so far beyond anything that U.S. financial markets are set up to handle-as to inspire a contagion of fear. Usually confident businessmen and bankers have begun talking of Latin American-style hyperinflation, financial collapse, major bankruptcies, a drastic...
...think three armies have ever been brought together like this. The starting point was the Prime Minister's theme of reconciliation on the day of victory, which, there was the calm that prevailed after the election results, which, I guarantee, nobody expected...
...calm the spirit, Byron suggested, apply "rum and true religion." Alas for Georgian simplicities. The rum has turned to water, the religion to immersion. Relentlessly, Americans have sought spiritual calm in steam baths, saunas, Jacuzzi whirlpools and hot tubs. Now, in the quest for tranquillity, some of them are dunking themselves, in total darkness and aloneness, for an hour or more at a time in small tanks filled with 250 gal. of 93.5° salt water. Why? To achieve, through "sensory deprivation," surcease from tension, reconciliation with the id, relief from jet lag, hangover, back pain or nicotine withdrawal...