Word: tranquilizing
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...burned in effigy many times over this year in the streets of Arab capitals, although the trigger issue until now has been the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Earlier this year, the wave of Arab anger sparked by Israel's reoccupation of West Bank cities even reached as far as normally tranquil Bahrain, which is also home to U.S. Naval operations in the Gulf. That wave of outrage sabotaged Vice President Cheney's springtime mission to recruit Arab support for a war on Iraq, and forced the Bush administration to reluctantly resume a measure of mediation between Israel and the Palestinians...
...profile in Zagreb, intent on living out his days in the quiet comfort of the villa he shares with Magdalena, his wife of 57 years. That was before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia banged hard on Bobetko's door in the Croatian capital's tranquil Tuskanac neighborhood - and demanded to see him in the Hague. The tribunal's five-count indictment, unsealed on Sept. 20, charges Bobetko, the Croatian army's former Chief of Staff, with "crimes against humanity" and "violations of the laws or customs of war" during the conflict in the autonomous Serbian region...
...Apart from two squid fishermen preparing outriggers under the Gauguin sky, I couldn't see another soul along the length of the beach. It was almost impossible to imagine this tranquil sea, waveless and lambent with the day's dying glow, as a foaming cataract of devastation. And as the waiter glided off to fetch another drink, I remembered Jahrani's parting words: "We live on the edge of the fire here in Flores. We know death can come at any time, from the mountains or from the sea. So we must try to savor each day like...
Spanning the hills of the southern subcontinent, the vast coffee plantations of India's Coorg region are tranquil sanctuaries known mainly to those who work the land. A half-day bus ride from the nearest airport at Bangalore?and generations removed from the congested tumult of India's other population centers?Coorg is a destination for travelers who prefer their sojourns to be sleepily decaffeinated...
...hotel ended abruptly on New Year's Day, 1998, when I was forcibly escorted from my room at dawn, then driven 10 minutes to an isolated beach and instructed by my "guide"?a member of Indonesia's Elite special forces?to kneel down on the headland that overlooked a tranquil, turquoise bay. He then placed a handgun to my head and asked, "Are you a journalist...