Word: low-key
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unexpectedly low-key debate last night in San Diego, President Bill Clinton restated his vision for the 21st century, while Republican challenger Robert J. Dole leveled quiet attacks against the president's record and character...
...seats up for grabs, and Democrats think if they take enough, it could be sufficient to give them control of the House. As both men hole up with their advisors for some last minute preparation, the second round promises to be feistier than the first. Contrasting with his relatively low-key approach in the first debate, Dole announced this week that he will attack the President on ethics issues. In a lunchtime speech before supporters in San Diego, Dole floated a few debate-night themes: "No administration has been more self-righteous. But few administrations have been more self-serving...
This has been a campaign season of modest politics, with modest excitements. What it got on Sunday night in the first of the presidential debates was a modest face-off--low-key, congenial and small bore, However good that may have been for the quality of public discourse, it didn't do much for Bob Dole's dwindling chances on Election Day. He needed to come away from the debate in Hartford, Connecticut, a clear winner, He took prizes instead for good behavior...
Sigma Chi member Matthew B. Bakal '97 described the rush, which has attracted more than 50 undergraduate men, as "low-key [and] non-alcoholic...
...negotiations at London's Stanstad Airport which brought the Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Refugees, and the Iraqi Community Association of London into the loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly excited," says TIME's Helen Gibson in London."The hijackers simply didn't want to go back to Iraq. They would rather face the relatively luxurious British social security system with its dole and housing benefits than an Iraqi jail or Saddam...