Word: tranquilizing
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...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...
...some White House aides, trekking to the relatively tranquil Far East was an unwelcome diversion from these more pressing concerns. Groused one Reagan lieutenant: "It's a real pain." But there was cogent reason to demonstrate U.S. solidarity with allies that it can count on. The Reagan Administration in addition hoped that the prod of the presidential visit would prompt some action on the serious trade disputes between the U.S. and Japan, and in that respect Reagan could claim some accomplishment before Air Force One even landed at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. In advance of the trip, Japan...
...recent findings of a German mathematical disrupted the tranquil summers of his peers at Harvard and MIT who pushed aside their own research and met informally to verity whether he had solved a problem that had been mathematicians for more than 60 years...
...Rica is a land of anxiety. It is, for one thing, virtually bankrupt. In the past two years, the colón has been devalued by almost 600%, and the country shows few signs of being able to repay an estimated $4.2 billion in foreign debt. While still relatively tranquil, Costa Rica has begun to experience tremors of violence that in some cases can be traced to the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua, whose rise Costa Ricans enthusiastically abetted. Providing sanctuary and financial support for the Sandinistas during their 1979 revolution was a top priority of Monge's predecessor...