Word: tranquillize
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...time being local leaders have no plans to pave paradise?even if they are putting up a parking lot. Says Diqing County Chief Pu Luhua: "Yubeng is a tranquil place. And we mean to keep it that way. We know this approach will be more profitable in the long run." But for now, the challenges of doing so take my breath away...
...antenna, the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa; the length from bow to stern is two proverbial American football fields, including the end zones. Davien and I were the only noncrew passengers aboard (supernumeraries, in the lingo of the sea), so we had a vast expanse of tranquil time and space at our disposal. On a cargo ship the entertainment is the ship and the sea?and the self. I've never had so much personal time. For anyone who is at all serious about reading or writing, traveling aboard a cargo ship such as the Ingrid Oldendorff...
Listening to James Yorkston’s debut album Moving Up Country, it’s impossible not to think of his sleepy Scottish hometown. Amid the tranquil guitar strumming and naively religious lyrics (sounding like James Taylor’s take on gospel), the melodies have an unmistakable Celtic twang that imbues the album with much-needed hints of something fresh...
...sports in which people actually hit each other. This is crew, in which the most violent event is, in theory, Crash B’s, and that’s only because of the name of the meet. It’s breezing up and down the (mostly) tranquil Charles River. It’s the sound of a diminutive but dedicated leader yelling “stroke” repeatedly as geese fly by and joggers pause to take in the idyllic scene...
Last April, Fu’s two worlds—her husband’s political activism and her tranquil family life—crashed into each other...