Word: quieted
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...kept them quiet in the race
Despite the unusual quiet of the first two miles of the course, the Black and White avoided the Crimson’s stumbles during the head race, stringing together a high-cadence performance all the way through despite the tail wind...
...five years later, that other America--the quiet gay frontier of Wyoming and other places where cowboy boots and work shoes far outnumber Prada slides--is becoming less frightened. In part because Shepard was attacked here, and in part because of its live-and-let-live ideal, Wyoming has even become something of a national laboratory in which gays and straights are learning--ever haltingly, now a step forward, now a lurch back--to live together...
...generates considerable applause. Then Zimmer veers off in a direction that would make many shareholders squirm, as he explains his unorthodox business philosophy. "You know, at some point we can't pay you enough money to make you want to go to work," Zimmer says, his voice getting quiet. "That's why we have a different feeling at Men's Wearhouse, and the word fun is somehow connected. We take fun seriously. You gotta take fun seriously in business, because God knows everybody could use some lightening...
While heading down the usually quiet Asian Art hallway in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) last Friday, visitors could hear strains of live jazz from the adjoining Koch Gallery bouncing off of the sixth century limestone Chinese sculptures. Between 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., the spacious gallery was packed to full capacity, perhaps the most popular place in town. The occasion was mfafirstfridays, an event that takes place on the first Friday of each month, when the site of one of the museum’s most popular permanent collections becomes a swinging singles scene...