Word: quieted
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...mental illness may help explain why some kids snap when faced with the usual torments of adolescence and others don't. Of course, some kids consider their vexations extraordinary. Carneal, who at the time of his crime was a freshman who got picked on for his small stature and quiet manner, told a psychiatrist that he felt going to prison would be better than continuing to endure the bullying in school...
...recently, I have been hearing screams," he wrote after his arrest. "I know that it's just in my mind, [but] it's like I'm really hearing them, as if someone were screaming in my face. Usually when it's time to go to sleep and everything is quiet is when my thoughts get worst, because it's all I can hear." Of a dream, he said, "I see myself standing there, shooting me." In his sleep, he is his own victim. And when he wakes...
...best of these stories all involve a woman's quiet moments alone or with others, revealing complex emotions with subtly and efficiency. Twice I found myself feeling like I had experienced another person's life. Twice! The black and white art, all done with super-fine pen lines, has plenty of nice detail. Masilamani does faces especially well, giving them an expressiveness and range that can't be reached with simplified characters...
...horizon looked relatively quiet; finally, Freeh had the security of knowing that Bush, rather than the rascal Clinton, would choose his successor. The Bureau would be in good hands. At last, after years of patiently biding his time, he?d spotted a good moment to escape...
...from the bottom several names (five) before I come to mine. Wow. I suppress a public victory whoop (I came in 40th! I came in 40th!) knowing that it would not be appropriate in the dead-serious atmosphere surrounding the results board. I save my reactions for later, quietly absorbing my place (and the places of my teammates) before moving off out of the hubbub. Later in the day I come back to the same board when nobody is around. The banners are still up and there is the echo of something dramatic still hanging...