Word: tranquilize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That night, and during the days that followed, Cairo was calm. Eleven years earlier, its millions had erupted in frenzied grief after the sudden death of Gamal Abdel Nasser. This time, the city remained unexpectedly tranquil, perhaps because Sadat aroused a different kind of emotion in his countrymen, but also because the state of emergency left people uneasy about venturing into the streets. There were no roadblocks. No extraordinary military presence was visible except around a few key installations and buildings. Stores stayed open late as Cairenes shopped for 'Id al-Adha, the Muslim feast of sacrifice. Only...
...sentineled boulevards and cramped, one-way lanes. But it can be equally harrowing for the poor pedestrian. Consider Appleton Street in the South End. Some years ago drivers discovered they could short-cut their way to the Southeast Expressway by using Appleton. Many weekday afternoons since then, the once-tranquil street has looked like some thing out of the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, and during the rest of the day, when the wide, one-way street is lightly traveled, like a drag strip. Next spring, things should begin to change for the citizens along Appleton Street. For one city...
...result of that tranquil pleasure, Kamali, 36, a petite, reclusive native New Yorker of Basque-Lebanese descent, finds herself at the center of a fashion revolution. It had its small beginnings last year on one of the trails of Manhattan. "I noticed one day that joggers weren't wearing gray any more," Kamali recalls, "and I thought, hey, what happened to sweatshirts? So I bought some sweatshirt material and began cutting and sewing...
Most of Nathan I. Huggin's first year as the chairman of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department was a tranquil transition to the task of building a solid academic program. But the department's tradition of controversy resumed this April when Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American studies, filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging that Harvard discriminated against her on the basis of race and sex. She also said she might sue the university, pending the EEOC's decision on her case...
Mitterrand must have been the only tranquil man in France last week in the wake of his stunning victory. That event had sent thousands of his jubilant supporters into the streets of Paris, singing, dancing and honking car horns to celebrate what some pundits were calling the second French Revolution. But on the Paris stock market, prices plunged and the franc hit a twelve-year low as investors paled at the prospect of Mitterrand's sweeping nationalization and economic reform plans. The major political parties began gearing up for a decisive parliamentary election that could lead to either...