Word: quieted
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...police had been tipped off by suspicious parents, but even so they weren't entirely prepared for what awaited them in a hotel room in the quiet spa town of Leamington, 160 km northwest of London. As they raided one day in August, stepping over the rubber stockings, condoms and sex-aid brochures found scattered about the room's floor, the cops found a 14-year-old girl who'd been enticed there for illegal sex by a man eight years her senior. The pair had corresponded frequently in the poorly policed realm of the Microsoft Network's Internet chat...
When it ended, Lightning Bolt seemed to vanish. The noise was gone and the magic disappeared as the audience lost its collective power. The quiet after the storm was alarming...
...acclaim and acceptance in the literary world Lahiri has garnered, her presence seems to belie it. After being introduced by Wordsworth Books’ William Corbett, Lahiri walked onstage with the quiet poise that is so common in her writing. Before reading an excerpt from Namesake, she commented on her own experience in Cambridge so many years...
...consider myself sincere and quiet and not over the top on anything,” Gray says, smiling a little. “I don’t get very excited about things...
Students ambling through Harvard Yard on a quiet evening last April were bewildered by powerful screams floating out of Grays Hall...