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Word: quieter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touched upon a menu of issues, including French complaints about high exchange rates and the burgeoning U.S. deficit. Despite the language barrier, the two men got along well, exchanging cheerful banter while photographers clicked away. As bulbs flashed, Mitterrand noted wryly to Reagan that "George Washington faced a much quieter life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Hail the Beleaguered Hero | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Naturally, I would have preferred that the hearing be held under quieter circumstances. I don't mind being questioned, hectored even, but it is discomfiting to have to answer sharply in full view of the world. It is easier to administer humiliation in public than to accept it. Besides, a circus atmosphere elicits the clown in all of us. It is difficult, when on camera, not to play to the gallery. This cheapens the process, distorts the results, and causes otherwise thoughtful persons to make damn fools of themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...desperate recitative interplay with the seducer himself. Junior Jeanine Bowman's Zerlina complements the other two women with her performance as an innocent country maiden, who almost falls into Giovanni's web Less emotional and more straightforward than Anna or Elvira. bowman's Zerlina is delightful with her quieter yet charming voice that reveals her character's naivete and dedication to her country bumpkin of a finance...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Opera Gigolo | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...There is [now] a quiet but deeper effort at practical ways of helping others," says Dean of Students Archie C. Epps Ill. "It is quieter, but only compared to the '60s. That period can now be seen as really exceptional...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Doing Unto Others | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

Outside the U.S., some 600 of the 707s will go on plying foreign air lanes, hauling cargo and carrying jet-about sheiks from the oil capitals of the world. But big U.S. airlines like TWA are flying more fuel-efficient and quieter planes like the Boeing 747 and the new Boeing 757. Meanwhile, the prototype for the 707 waits patiently outside Tucson, Ariz., for the day when it will be moved into the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell Flight | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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