Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knock out Soviet silos. In the sea-based leg of its triad, the U.S. already has a huge advantage over the Soviet Union in three respects: geography makes it far easier for the U.S. to get its subs to sea and keep them there; U.S. subs are much quieter than Soviet ones and therefore harder to track and destroy in a conflict; and American SLBMs are more numerous, more accurate and altogether more potent than Soviet ones...
...past excesses stemmed from enthusiasm, an ardency toward the world that his major characters share as well. In the famous conclusion of Rabbit Run (1960), the hero races toward life as if it promised victory: "Out of a kind of sweet panic growing lighter and quicker and quieter, he runs. Ah: runs. Runs." Updike's men are lovers of the here and now and not afraid to look foolish while saying so. Piet Hanema in Couples, Harry Angstrom in the three Rabbit novels, Bech, assorted adolescents and husbands in the short stories: all act in childlike confidence...
Whereas the admissions office managed some-how to maintain its image as a quiet oasis through all the protests and disillusion of the times, the aid office--by nature quieter and more deliberate still--was thrown headlong into the festivities by virtue of a rule that withdrew the scholarships of any student who was placed on probation. In late 1968 a small group staged a demonstration in Paine Hall, a sort of pre-skirmish to the larger battles to follow. One of those placed on probation was the senior running back of the football eam. Innocently, the aid office took...
...Hotel Alexandre in East Beirut checking out. TIME Staff Photographer Rudi Frey was at the hotel bar having a beer. David Rubinger, another veteran TIME photographer, was upstairs packing. The three were in effect calling it a day, just like everybody else. "Trusting that a new and quieter era had begun in Lebanon," says Halevy, "we all believed that this would be our last trip to Beirut for some time." Then, he recalls, "the bomb exploded, and I was almost thrown to the lobby floor." Says Frey: "At first I thought: Cool it. It is just another car bomb around...
Warm, human Primo provides the one bright spot in this flawed drama Best known to American audiences for his lead role in La Cage Aux Folles unshaven Ugo Tognazzi in baggy corduroys portrays Primo's working class origins as sensual and simple Primo imbodies an earthiness once quieter and more passionate than the mysteria of his aging but staff beautiful wife Barbara (Anoak Ainee...