Word: tranquillity
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...become an annual ritual on the tranquil lakes of northern Wisconsin. As the sun sets behind the dense pines that surround Lake Nokomis, tribal drumbeats signal the start of the Chippewa spearfishing season. While the Indians steer their boats into the calm, dark waters, angry protesters try to drown out the drums with air horns, whistles and taunting choruses of songs with such lyrics as "Where have all the walleye gone...
...much doubt that this scene also held a lesson for an America plunged into hatred and despair by the Civil War. The morning sun rises through the plume of smoke and ash, irresistibly, its disk made lurid but not extinguished by the subterranean fires, its light mirrored in a tranquil lake. Catastrophe will not wipe out nature; in the foreground of the volcanic plain, new plants spring to life. This, as the art historian David C. Huntington once remarked, is about as close as American painting in the Civil War period ever came to the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...ever figured out how to make much of a buck out of Thanksgiving. That is why it stands as a tranquil oasis amid the tawdry tinsel trappings of modern life...
...brief and tranquil courtroom session, conducted while scores of partisans waited anxiously outside, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said the court's 1988-89 term will end Monday...
...manner on and off the court as a residue of his Christian faith, though he does not dispute those who detect some Oriental mystery. "I guess that could be appropriate. I am a quiet person and do not show much emotion. My hobby is fishing, and fishing is very tranquil...