Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earnest speech, Carter sketches modest goals for a tranquil time...
...likes brandy and cigars, expensive suits and an occasional pretty woman. He is an unflappable sort-but since he is the hero of a Luis Buñuel film, his poise is soon put to extraordinary tests. Terrorists, for no discernible reason, begin to blow up cars in his tranquil Seville neighborhood. A waiter at his favorite restaurant serves him a martini containing a huge fly. His butler, ordinarily a paragon of civility, starts to give him Up. Somehow Mathieu remains untouched by all these shenanigans, but then he falls in love with Conchita, a ravishing young virgin. Though Conchita...
...family, and toured the country in his private helicopter. One day when Sadat and Kennerly were in Mit Abu el Kom, Sadat's home village, the President looked up to the sky and lamented the fact that so many Egyptian military planes now flew over the once tranquil town...
...over. I don't think this club can take another year, another two weeks, an-other week of all this. You don't have to be one big happy family to concentrate on playing ball. But if everything isn't going to be tranquil, next year we'll be a good fourth-place club...
...force by India's new rulers. They are eager to prove that they can enforce the 1973 Foreign Exchange Regulation Act better than Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, which was thrown out of office last March. The new mood is a far cry from the more tranquil days of 1950, when Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of newly independent India, sipped Coke as the cornerstone was laid for an Indian Coke-bottling plant, or in the mid-'60s, when the Dalai Lama, in India as a refugee from the Communist takeover of Tibet, happily quaffed Coke...