Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after dawn, some 50 FBI agents ghosted into the Bethesda neighborhood, concealed in cars, vans and a trailer. At the prescribed hour, an agent dropped the bait, a dummy payoff package, beside the hydrant. For the next hour or so, all was tranquil. Several children passed the hydrant on their way to skate on a nearby pond. One boy spotted the package and stopped, but a husky man emerged from a brick house and ordered him on his way. The man began to rake leaves around the house. Several times he approached the package but did not touch...
Maybe that was Ford's final legacy to this nation-a transition of power so tranquil that nobody in Washington felt compelled to take to the street in his anguish. They had stood in muted knots by the hundreds after John Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon Johnson took over the office and went about his duties on the night of Nov. 22, 1963. It was a nightmarish time of conflicting emotions in the world of power. There is the chance that now, after 13 long and often painful years, our political system is finally returning to something like normal...
Spread out amid landscaped lawns, pine trees and poplars on the eastern fringes of Seoul, the headquarters of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency looks more like a tranquil U.S. campus than the nerve center of what is perhaps the most overzealous, if not the most heavyhanded, secret service in the Orient. As revelations of KCIA conspiracies in the U.S. continued to unfold, what had begun as a case of relatively petty influence peddling in Washington was fast developing into a major political and diplomatic scandal...
...TRANQUIL SURFACE of early married life for Stephanie, the narrator of Lovers and Tyrants, is disturbed by a recurring dream in which she is a middleaged spinster, alone and unloved. The dream is a result of her disappointment, not only with marriage, but with all her close relationships from childhood on. None of the people she has loved, from her nanny, her father and her high school girlfriends to her adult lovers, has provided her with a real sense of comfort and belonging. Instead, each of the loved ones has stunted her emotional growth in some profound...
With the differences between Ford's and Carter's programs narrowing and with the world relatively tranquil, the big issue before the American house is simply what kind of men these two are-character. In 1960 Barber watched the powerful fusion of John Kennedy and television and decided political psychology was one way to get a glimpse of how Presidents might perform in the future...