Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many voices were in favor of cooling it. Minnesota Congressman Donald Fraser, who chairs the congressional ad hoc human rights group, believes that in the long run the rights issue will have to be dealt with on a "quieter level." He urges a distinction between "trying to influence other countries, [which will mean] some fruitless endeavor and may get us in all sorts of trouble," and being "just prepared to say where we stand." Carter referred to the difficult balancing act between these two positions during a courtesy call at the Department of State. Said...
...years we have watched the administration homogenizing the 'Cliffe into Harvard; this would seem another example of that long, painful process of eliminating those desired "alternative living arrangements". But is it necessary? To be sure, the character of the House here has changed, though it is neither noisier nor quieter, more passive nor more active, and the greater variety of personality types have already set us on a par with the rest of the College. However, this continued attempt to make us totally indistinguishable (and hence indiscernable) from Adams House, for instance, is making large, happy, quiet communities within...
...other carriers, will be replacements only and will not increase the size of United's fleet. United will trade in 28 of its old DC-8s to Boeing and will finance the purchase with existing cash plus money generated internally from earnings and depreciation. It will be getting quieter, more economic planes. Each of them, United executives estimate, will save 1,300 gallons of fuel ($428 worth) over the old DC-8s on a single fully loaded flight from, say, Denver to Chicago...
...sleuth, "the worst old cat in the village." Her famous garden was a smokescreen, and her fondness for observing birds through powerful glasses could be turned to other purposes. As time passed, Dr. Haydock had to tell Miss Marple gently that gardening was making her rheumatism worse. She became quieter and less flighty. But her methods of detection were always the same. Where Poirot used his "little gray cells," Jane Marple extrapolated from her knowledge of St. Mary Mead. A swindler? She remembers Mrs. Trout, who "drew the old-age pension, you know, for three old women who were dead...
...much Russian and Eastern European satire, an ironic curtain has descended with an unmistakable clang. But there are quieter ironies as well. They deal with human limitations, and the all too human ability to invent illusions that disguise those limitations. For example, there is brilliant Dr. Skreta, head of the spa, a slightly mad scientist who practices personal eugenics by inseminating unwitting patients with his own sperm. A rich American expatriot named Bartleff dispenses fistfuls of U.S. half dollars while preaching a Christianity of joy in which saintly asceticism is practiced out of sheer lust for adulation. Kundera also introduces...