Word: tranquilize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settled not by artful negotiation but by an eruption of hot-tempered fury. As the walkout by Britain's 17,700 dock workers dragged into its second week, the truck drivers stuck at the port of Dover grew surlier. By late last week the motorway snaking through the tranquil Kent countryside had burgeoned into a five-mile parking lot, replete with the bellow of air horns and the whiff of rotting fruit destined never to reach its market. The curses grew saltier, the threats louder. Finally, an ultimatum came from the madding crowd: open the port...
...represents 301 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches with more than 400 million members, has appeared to many to have placed more emphasis on such complex social problems as racism and political oppression than on traditional spiritual concerns. Last week in Geneva the council took a step toward a more tranquil course with the election of a new General Secretary: Emilio Castro, 57, a Methodist minister from Uruguay. Dutch Ecumenist Willem Visser 't Hooft, 83, the organization's first chief officer, said that Castro "is more of a bridge builder between those who want to emphasize the role...
...policy in the West Bank, we are going to hand civil authority to the local people. We are going to invite Jordan to negotiate and suggest to Egypt to start the talks on autonomy again. We are going to suggest turning the Gulf of Aqaba into a secure and tranquil zone that may serve as an alternative to the Persian Gulf...
...confusion. All they can hear now is the lap of a low surf, the keening of seagulls and occasionally the shouts of children playing on the beach. The puzzle is how to connect the remembered knot of constant fear, the moments of horror and exhilaration in combat, with the tranquil landscape beyond the beach. It is a vision by Edvard Munch imposed on a romantic painting from la Belle Epoque. Some of the veterans, now mainly in their 60s, simply sit down on the beach and stare out to sea. For others, the contrast between recollection and reality, that...
Then the noisy presidential caravan swept on to Dixon High School for a birthday party and flew off to Eureka College for the speech on his old campus. Hennepin Avenue quieted and for the moment appeared to be the same tranquil corner of the Middle West it had been for more than a century. But that was deceptive. The avenue now is in the history books...