Word: quieted
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...always a very quiet person, very shy, and on the outside a little ill at ease with everything going on then," Goldman recalls. "However, if you delved beneath the surface, she had an iron-clad will...
...never deterred from her purpose, and that was to get a good education.... I respected her for that," Goldman says. "Amy was never very outspoken--she stayed very quiet. However, whenever you asked her about something, she had a thoughtful opinion. She just never broadcast that...
...propaganda campaign?Beijing claims that 1,700 followers have died because of eccentric Falun Gong practices?most Chinese view the group as harmlessly kooky. Yet for the nation's control-crazed rulers, no group, not even firebrand dissidents who call for immediate political reform, is as menacing as these quiet meditators who have mounted among the most sustained protests in the history of the People's Republic...
George W. Bush has kept quiet about Clinton's pardons, knowing he will want to issue a few of his own. His father, after losing re-election, pardoned Caspar Weinberger and five other Iran-contra players. Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, kept in the dark until those pardons were announced, accused Bush of trying to keep himself off the witness stand. Clinton can hope the memory of his pardons will fade just as quickly...
...From the right, of course, the view is much different. There's a quiet but firm belief that Bush won a major victory getting Ashcroft confirmed - and that the only folks who should get a "message" from the process are the Democrats who tried to sink the nomination. It's time, in other words, for Democrats to face up to the fact that they lost the presidential election, they don't have a majority in the Senate, and they are no longer in any position to call the shots...