Singers of Womack's vintage can often be eccentric in their choice of repertoire, paying only scant respect to their back catalogue, but he stayed gratifyingly faithful to the halcyon period in his career.

Because of Xerox's strong financial position, the laboratory's first half-decade was a halcyon period for it.

The impact rate tailed off as the remnant planetesimals were soaked up by the planets, and there was a halcyon period of relative quiescence, lasting a few hundred mil- lion years ... and then, this.

--What wisest Philosophe, in this halcyon uneventful period, could prophesy that there was approaching, big with darkness and confusion, the event of events?

For nearly a century Canadian economists saw the reciprocity era as a halcyon period for the Canadian economy.

I know: I've gone through the first halcyon period and am just about ripe for my critical damnation.

In the words of historian Charles Allen, they now entered 'a halcyon period', even planting a vegetable garden at the Manor while officers explored the town unescorted, or went fishing and shooting.

The halcyon period reached a climax in 1969 with the Apollo 11 moon landing.

SCO's faith in ACE dwindled even before ACE's halcyon period began to wane.

This was repeated twice in the next three years, a halcyon period when the League Cup was also won on three occasions.