Germany's trying to act a broker in the conflicts, to try to assuage Russian fears that it wouldn't be threatened if Ukraine moves closer to the European Union.
The state, flush with cash and repressed guilt over the traumas its citizens experienced in the 90s, handed out petrodollars to assuage lingering anxieties with free housing and interest-free loans.
The memories swirled, silver white and strange, and without hesitating, with a feeling of reckless abandonment, as though this would assuage his torturing grief, Harry dived.