Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where Robertson had lived was gussied up for the occasion, complete with an all-black combo wafting cool jazz notes into the crisp autumn air. But only 60 or so supporters were seated on folding chairs. An additional 400 were expected but didn't show, and the candidate's tranquil TV tableau was quickly transformed into bedlam in Bed-Stuy. Several dozen demonstrators, many of them gay activists, waved derisive placards that proclaimed such unglad tidings as HITLER IN 1939. ROBERTSON IN 1988. As Robertson volunteers distributed bumper stickers, a grandmotherly black woman snapped, "Does he really think...
...mere fact that the tranquil-looking admiral could claim that this was the case illustrates what was so dangerously wrong about the Iran-contra operation. At every step of the way, it was designed to avoid the political accountability that is at the heart of American democracy. The authorizations and findings required for the Iranian arms deals either were never sent to the proper officials or were destroyed and conveniently forgotten. Gunrunning to the contras was handled by a network of ragtag profiteers coordinated by a colonel on the National Security Council staff. And the President...
...exile in the closed city of Gorky. At a ceremony in Moscow last week inducting him into the French Academy of Sciences, Sakharov, who was allowed to return home last December, accused fellow members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences of spreading "cock-and-bull stories" about his supposedly "tranquil life" in Gorky. On the contrary, he said, he suffered psychological torture and frequent harassment while in exile. Despite the current policy of glasnost (openness), a newspaper account of the ceremony did not mention Sakharov's remarks...
...which once seemed like a tiny speck on the horizon, is closing fast with hot new planes and cut-rate prices. Subsidized by European governments and charged by its rivals with making underhanded deals to win sales, Airbus has brought fiercer competition to an industry that has never been tranquil. It has also sparked a serious trade dispute between the U.S. and its allies across the Atlantic. The stakes involved are enormous: an estimated 2,000 planes worth $250 billion will be sold in the next 13 years...
Kansas City boosters countered the cosmopolitan claims of the competition by stressing the advantages of the more tranquil Midwest. Over cocktails at a Mission Hills mansion, Mark Russell, a Kansas City developer, genially assured Democrats, "We don't have race riots here, we don't have crazies, and all our cabdrivers speak English...