halcyon

• "When I was a teenager, I worked in the orchards around Wenatchee picking apples, cherries and other fruit," Armstrong said in a press release, recalling the halcyon days of the early 1970s. —  HorsesAss.Org
• This is to say nothing of the Marine barracks massacre of 1983, and the innumerable attacks on U.S. embassies and installations around the world during what Obama now characterizes as the halcyon days of U.S. —  OxBlog
• And in a gesture intended to recall the halcyon days under the fourth premier, they invited Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to campaign in the two Bukits.
• Hailing from Austin, Texas, the home of SXSW, Ringo Deathstarr stir up an incendiary racket that recalls the halcyon days of My Bloody Valentine pre-empting their 'Isn't Anything' surge to legendary status ( 'Starrsha') while 'Down On You' and 'Swirly' conjure up images of previous tour buddies A Place To Bury Strangers jamming with the Boo Radleys in their experimentally LOUD phase (i.e. when they were very, very good). —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
• He said the acquisition of Ferrer and Tsonga was only the start in assembling an entry for the South African Open that will recall the halcyon days of the event in the 1970s and early 1980s when many of the world's leading players came to the country. —  Mail & Guardian Online

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