Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours on the nightlong 3,400 mile leg to Anchorage. Then, still mainly in darkness as they headed away from sunrise in the east, they would face an additional 7½ dreary hours before reaching Seoul's Kimpo Airport in what KAL brochures call "the land of morning calm...
...policemen almost passed by the calm, bespectacled figure sitting in the economy section. But when one of them recognized him, Aquino rose from his seat and went willingly. The police led Aquino down a stairway from the passenger tube to the pavement, where an unmarked military van was waiting. Suddenly, the pop of a revolver was heard. Seconds later two other revolver shots rang out. Horrified passengers crouched on the floor of the plane...
...physical safety in a potentially hostile land. The goddess did not guess the damage her meddling would cause to Aeneas' reputation. But Fitzgerald's translation makes vivid the sufferings of both Dido and her anointed suitor: "Duty-bound,/ Aeneas, though he struggled with desire/ To calm and comfort her in all her pain." And he, "shaken still/ With love of her, yet took the course heaven gave him/ And went back to the fleet." However paraphrased, this brand of heroism is easier to admire than love...
...gases spiral toward the neutron star, they heat up, reaching such high temperatures (up to 10 million°C) and densities that the atoms of hydrogen smash into each other and fuse. This causes a runaway thermonuclear explosion that spews a torrent of X rays. During the period of calm after the explosion, ranging from a few hours to a few days, enough fresh material piles up on the surface of the neutron star to fuel another giant blast...
...since 1979, when the Carter Administration launched a $30 billion effort to prop up what was then a sinking dollar. The Reagan White House, by contrast, has preferred a hands-off policy toward the currency's price. After the attempted presidential assassination in 1981, it stepped in to calm foreign-exchange markets, and it did so again last October, largely to ease jitters over a possible Brazilian default. But each time Washington pumped in no more than $100 million...