Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Square was a center of Movement culture--a gathering place for a New Left politicos, an arena for folk and rock concerts and street theatre, and a staging ground for protests and periodic riots. Since then the Square has become commercialized, the radicals have been arrested or become quieter, and much of the Movement has moved away from the more pastoral surroundings...
...either a healing of the schism or for government toleration of the reform movement. But the London School of Economies' Michael Bourdeaux, in his 1971 book Faith on Trial in Russia, maintains that the movement has given some leverage to the All-Union Council in its own, quieter struggle with the regime. One concession won by the council is that it is now allowed to run a correspondence course for pastors, the first formal Baptist education permitted since...
...This has been a quieter year in terms of public political activity," Munter said. "Students seem to be internalizing rather than externalizing and this could be one reason for the increase." Visits resulting from problems with drug use seem to be declining, he added, although there are no exact figures available...
...Hory had fled Ibiza and the invading newsmen for a quieter locale, so Beardwood began calling mutual acquaintances through out Europe. An hour later, he learned that the artist was staying at the home of friends in London. A call there disclosed that De Hory was out playing baccarat. Reached the next morning, he agreed to do the cover. Because it was Sunday, art-supply shops were closed, and he could not begin until the next...
When fiendishness failed, the town turned to noise. Last week's salvos drove all but a few of the birds from Radford-presumably to quieter roosts nearby. The citizens will next thin out the piney grove in hopes of discouraging the birds from returning...