Word: quieted
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...three-job-induced lack of sleep talking here—Gary represents the best of humanity. He’s kind, interesting, helpful and simple in a way that means a lot to a truck stop staffer at 3 a.m. And he’s also a good, quiet influence on the sometimes-tough-to-handle bar crowd, which usually stops in to sober up about the same time Gary is coming in for his muffin before a morning of thoroughbreds...
...last four years Fineberg has held the job of provost and brought a sense of stability to the position in the eyes of many observers. Those who dealt with him credit him for his quiet diplomacy and say that he solidified a few areas as the provost’s sole territory...
...attorney's fugitive-and-extradition chief had hunted the man called Mallon with an obsession that would have impressed Captain Ahab. His name was not Eugene Mallon, as he had conned the French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many...
...well-trained enough to be stolidly materialistic even in glum times like these. Boom or bust, we're soldiering on - leading our lives of quiet desperation and buy whatever gadgets we can to scratch the itch. Even if it means going a gazillion dollars in debt, we'll keep retail sales respectable until the seas boil...
...Clarence A. Wills took his quiet pig-tailed daughter to a sunny tennis court in Berkeley, Cal., and handed her a racquet which she swung at first like a nightstick. She missed the first ball. She changed her grip and hit the next one. Within a month she could defeat her father... Masculinity characterizes the Wills game. No woman hits a ball so hard. Whenever she can she practices with a man because "it is the best training, the men are naturally more strong, though not always so deft." Her training is strictly a personal matter. She dislikes to think...