Word: tranquillize
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...electrocardiograph wired to a pair of brass-tipped harpoons (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952). Since the whale was small as well as in an understandable state of excitement, Dr. White was not fully satisfied with the result. He still yearns to record the throb of a heart of a tranquil, un-harpooned and bigger whale...
...hoped that the French punitive expeditions had already broken the back of the Arab revolt; yet last week the killings went on. In Morocco, nationalist saboteurs burned French gasoline dumps; in Algeria, rebel bands fought a four-hour battle with the Foreign Legion, and 54 died. Even in relatively tranquil Tunisia, 23 rebels and eleven Frenchmen were killed in a sudden outbreak. Total casualties in North Africa since Aug. 20: close to 3,000 dead, thousands more wounded...
...four years in the White House he could make a contribution to peace peculiarly his own, then Geneva produced new factors which, far more than theoretical arguments, could be decisive. After the hardest days of the Big Four discussions, Mr. Eisenhower appeared more full of zest, more rested, more tranquil than I have seen him in many months. Why? Because he was doing the thing on which, above all else, his heart and mind are set: to try to set the world on the pathway to better peace and to build an unpassable roadblock in front of a possibly hydrogen...
...residents of New England are the least likely to kill one another. Vermont, with a homicide rate of 0.5 per 100,000 in 1952 (six deaths), has the most tranquil record...
...youngsters," said Dwight Eisenhower, "it seems a bit of fortunate coincidence that I should have an opportunity to see you just as I am about to depart for Geneva." He was going to Europe to talk peace, he said, in the hope that he could bring about a more tranquil life for their generation than his generation has had. But, in a word of advice to the youngsters, he expressed the basic philosophy that he was taking across the Atlantic: "Never sacrifice the basic principle that the human being is the important thing on this planet...