Word: tranquilizing
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...broad paths and shaded by groves of cherry trees, the shrine sits in a park across the moat from Japan?s Imperial Palace, attracting a range of lovers, snoozers and strollers. During the spring, it's a favorite location for Tokyo's famous cherry blossom festival. In such a tranquil setting, visitors might be tempted to forget those the shrine was erected to honor: Japan's 2.5 million war dead, including 14 convicted Class A war criminals from World...
...chalk and scribbled a message in big letters on Tota's blackboard menu facing the promenade. "Stop Violence Everywhere," it said. "Stop All War." It's a new, less celebratory slogan for Tota. But after three successive terrorist attacks in what ought to be one of the most tranquil places on earth, it seems grimly appropriate...
...last game for Hafner and classmates Tom Walsh, Charlie Johnson, Dan Murphy, and John Daigneau. Unlike the ECAC title weekend, during which Harvard dominated Dartmouth and Cornell with tranquil efficiency, coach Ted Donato ’91 said his team was “outplayed pretty much for the entire game, from top to bottom” by Maine...
...what he has to do, as a citizen-are the center of the roaming anthropologist's new collection of essays, Incendiary Circumstances. The title comes from a piece in which Ghosh, sitting at his desk in Delhi, working on his first novel, in 1984, suddenly sees the tranquil world around him go up in flames in the wake of Indira Gandhi's assassination. Hours before, he was just another student and aspiring author, hovering over his notebook in a part of Delhi called Defence Colony; overnight, he becomes an activist of sorts, going out into the streets to shout Gandhian...
...DECK AND LOUNGE The Saltwater Bar and Grill on Marine Drive may have the best view in town, but Vie?Saltwater's alfresco rival in Juhu?wins when it comes to food. Lobsters in wine and olive sauce, lavender lamb kebabs and home-baked bread are served at tranquil waterside tables...