Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army cleans up, as calm returns to Punjab...
...guns fell silent last week around the Sikhs' Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab, leaving a tentative, uneasy calm in their wake. Steel-helmeted troops were positioned on many street corners, ready to quell any new outbreak of violence. The revered Golden Temple remained intact, but surrounding buildings lay in ruins or were seriously damaged. The destruction was a testament to the bloody battle that raged there for 36 hours earlier this month, after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the army to attack more than 1,000 heavily armed Sikh extremists barricaded inside the temple grounds...
...calm Voice of the Administration, exuding almost 350 years of Harvard know-how, belies the confusion and proliferation of courses, students, and teachers that is the summer school these days. Derek Bok tells us Harvard is changing--that its vital task in the coming years will be to learn how to deal with this proliferation of nontraditional students, who come not only in the summertime, but at night and for short courses and for mid-career programs...
...along, Ivan felt that he was doing heaven's work. "Having beaten, flayed, pincered, quartered and roasted, [he] plunged into a woman or into God with renewed vigor," observes Troyat. "After each series of executions, Ivan and his son were to be found in church again, in a calm and pious mood...
...felt like someone was tightening my head in a vise." She finally found relief with calcium channel blockers, originally developed for heart patients. Antidepressive drugs like the tricyclics are frequently recommended for shingles and chronic lower-back pain. Antiseizure medications like Dilantin, commonly used to treat epilepsy, can help calm the spasmlike facial pain of trigeminal neuralgia...