Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Casoria, the fight started again. There were heavy casualties from flying pots, pans and chairs. Skulls were cracked and blood flowed. At week's end six of the injured were still in hospital. The Widow Cicatiello gave up trying to make peace, took a plane back to tranquil Providence...
...fine, large-featured, dim-eyed, bronze-coloured, shaggy-headed man is Alfred," wrote Carlyle in 1840, "dusty, smoky, free and easy; who swims outwardly and inwardly, with great composure, in an articulate element as of tranquil chaos and tobacco smoke." Seasoned in the fumes of his own shag, he was also, before he was 35, the veteran of a personal hell from which almost nothing was lacking: a torn and distressful home; the shock and grief of losing his best friend, Arthur Hallam; the cruelty of a sneering review in the Quarterly Review that drove him into nine years...
Interior Minister Eduardo Salazar Gomez declared that the country was completely tranquil-so tranquil, in fact, that he permitted himself a jest: "We have jailed only those caught with their hands in stinking water...
...tranquil surroundings of Dinty Moore's, the Crimson mentor rose and stated that at Princeton, his team had been "fundamentally licked." The Tigers had gained their win by "shoulders and hard-hitting." He summed up the situation aptly: "Saturday was like an open date with physical punishment...
...held the first promissory note of frost. New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass. Lakes lay dark and still and the sound of an ax or a distant locomotive carried for miles on the tranquil...