Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might make it earlier, and it might make it quieter, but it sure as hell won't make the paper any better," Sorrento, a 16-year veteran of the Crimson shop said yesterday...
Harvard, the number one seed in the tourney, dominated the first half of yesterday's final. Charlie Bott booted two penalty kicks to put the Crimson ahead 6-0 at the half, and the UMass rooters became even quieter in the second stanza when flyhalf Keith Watling scored a drop kick to add three more points to the Harvard lead...
...also has a strong grass-roots component, with Jewish leaders in each state who agree with the lobby's aim being asked to contact their Congressmen. For their part, the Saudis have hired a high-priced Washington consultant, Frederick Dutton, but efforts on their behalf have generally been quieter. Says Dutton: "The Saudis take the position that this is a battle for the Administration to fight, not them. If I had my way, I'd have bumper stickers plastered all over town that say REAGAN OR BEGIN...
...spent 3½ hours wading in mud, pulling weeds. That is the President's idea of a good time -that or his other recent projects of framing a tack room for the horses and mending a fence. Still, Reagan's concept of a vacation also includes quieter things like noticing deer, listening to frogs and staring at the brilliant, spangled nights. Why anyone would choose such activities over munching canapes in the Hamptons is a mystery to many journalists, but then they have long found Reagan somewhat unreal...
...likely now that the villains may win out, at least for the time being. Soviet tanks are poised on the country's frontiers, Russian propaganda is increasingly critical of the independent Polish union Solidarity, and almost every other sign points to the possibility of an invasion or a quieter "police action" to repress dissent in Poland. And that presents a difficult problem for those in the West who have watched the Poles with such hope...