Word: tranquillize
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...sleep? Let's continue: Your victims in Czechoslovakia, 800,000 . . . 900,000 . . . and those in Poland, 1,000,000, 2,000,000, 3,000,000 . . . victims, Mr. Chancellor. You have certainly earned the right to sleep after that. . . . You must have a tranquil conscience. Sleep well and pleasant dreams. Good night, Adolf Hitler...
Berlin tried to laugh off the Golden Horn episode. "Things like that happen in Turkey," said a spokesman. "They usually are straightened out later." Meantime, Turkish spies reported that Russia, at whom Allied power in the Near East points most directly, was not so tranquil. Soviet engineers, advised by Germany's great fort-builder, Dr. Fritz Todt, are rushing fortifications in the Caucasus, using several hundred thousand workmen, to defend Russia's (and Germany's) oil supply. Already Russia has mined the approaches to all her big Black Sea ports...
...there be serious consequences from the assignment of one group of students to wait on another? How real is Harvard democracy? They are questions to be raised, not answered now. Doubtless they are bothering both University Hall and the Student Council committee. To conclude that all would be perfectly tranquil is certainly unrealistic; to say that Harvard would be divided into social castes is to subscribe wholeheartedly to New Haven versions of Harvard life. Perhaps a plebiscite in each of the separate Houses will be necessary to clarify the issues...
...realistic. Samples: a soldier with a sword piercing his throat, another transfixed by an arrow, an agonized, trumpeting elephant with a spear sticking in its eye, a soldier caught by a wounded elephant's trunk dashed to pieces against the ground. But there are some surprise shots of tranquil loveliness: a close-up of five banks of oars leisurely sweeping a Roman quinquereme through still water; against a big sunset cloud pile, the beak of Hannibal's galley drifting into Carthage harbor as he returns defeated from Italy...
...August 2, 1914, the cruiser Emden lay in the tranquil, mountain-embraced harbor of Tsingtao, China, with its crew assembled on deck. Captain Karl von Müller, a man of Prussian gallantry and Goth insolence, read to the sailors a wireless message announcing war's declaration...