Word: quiescent
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Liberia had always seemed a comfortably quiescent sort of backwater. Founded by freed American slaves in 1822, it had been ruled until Doe by an elite of their descendants, known as Americo-Liberians, who ran everything. The U.S., in turn, used Liberia as a major outpost, building some $500 million worth of facilities, Voice of America transmitters for all of Africa, plus a navigational system and communications station...
...only victims. Communist oppression was much more subtle than it was under the Nazis. We made our peace with this dreadful system. I was always ashamed that we were so quiescent...
...citizens, O'Connor and Vaughan have as much right as any pro-choicer to seek legislative endorsement of their views on public issues. (They are also entitled to ask Cuomo why he is so quiescent on abortion but so aggressive on another complex moral matter -- seven times vetoing bills that would bring back the state death penalty.) Still, some caveats are in order. One is that charity as well as justice should guide the hierarchs into correctly stating positions they condemn. Both O'Connor and Vaughan accused Cuomo of advocating "the right of a woman to kill a child...
...demanding that Todor Zhivkov, the autocratic hard-liner who had been ousted only a week earlier after 35 years in power, be put on trial. Although the unthinkable has become a daily happening in Eastern Europe, there was still something astonishing in the sight of street demonstrations in this quiescent land. The marches even had the blessing of the week-old reformist government of Petar Mladenov, 53, which has been moving rapidly to harness the country's desire for change. For the first time ever, Bulgarians watched live television coverage of their National Assembly -- and listened to vicious denunciations...
Eddy's tree-ring data revealed other 50-to-100-year intervals in the past when carbon-14 production was high and the sun apparently quiescent. But did this mean that all of these periods were times of extreme cold? Many scientists doubted it, suggesting that the correlation between the Maunder minimum and the little ice age might be nothing more than sheer coincidence. Changes in solar cyclic activity, the doubters argued, were not necessarily accompanied by variations in the sun's output of heat and light and probably did not affect terrestrial weather and climate...