Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to make a pet of her." Suddenly the mother rhino wheels and storms at the guests, who jump away from the fence. As Chula nudges the baby back to the safety of the tall grass, the raspy warning grunt of a wild rhinoceros saws through the quiet of the south Texas twilight...
Many resort-area residents also complain of the noise and nuisance of thoughtless riders who buzz fishermen, menace rowboats and rip through the quiet of mountain lakes and peaceful beaches. As a result, several states and localities have passed legislation in recent years regulating where and by whom the motorized skis may be used. Many have set the minimum age for riders at 14, require use of a life jacket and forbid riding at night. In Florida, where eleven deaths have occurred since 1987, the state plans to outlaw such reckless maneuvers as weaving through powerboat traffic. Local authorities...
...murders were carefully and diabolically plotted. By the time the bullet- riddled bodies of John List's mother, wife and three children were discovered in Westfield, N.J., in December 1971, the quiet accountant had been missing for nearly a month. It took authorities 18 years to catch up with him, and then only through a TV crime show...
...hard to adapt to a different culture," Ocasio says, recalling his first year at Harvard. "I had problems communicating in my freshman year and people in my dorm thought I was very quiet...
Wilson: I've never put a label onmyself. I'm not typecast as an active supporter ofwomen because my portfolio is on a differentscope, but I've worked as much as I could more ina quiet diplomacy style because I've been in innercircles in the institutions I've been working withand I've had the opportunity to tweak the systemat the right time, to get the point across. Ifound that to be a very effective strategy...