Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour Science Center guard concept. Because of the volume of daytime traffic, deliveries and classes, a 24-hour guard would be worthless. As an alternate suggestion, I suggest that the guards be posted at about 3:30, when maintenance people generally start to leave and the building becomes quieter...
Demonstration organizers have said they favor quieter methods of protest because "we didn't think that [stronger forms of protest] would work here now," according to Ivette Pena, the incoming chair of Alianza, a Hispanic students' organization. Pena added that Alianza would continue its negotiation with the administration over the next academic year, but "we don't want to be forced to take harsher measures...
...Connell said construction will begin this August and should be completed by spring 1991. She said that work will occur daily between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., with quieter tasks performed in the first hour each...
Provincetown, located on the Cape's tip, may well be called "Honky-Tonk Town" for its funky bars and lively entertainment. Although packed in the summer, P-town is quieter in the spring--there are no lines at the restaurants and the atmosphere retains more of its New England charm...
Over time, historians have found other, quieter "revolutions," with a noble legacy worthy of an intellectual defense. Recently, Eric Foner, in his account of the Reconstruction period, portrayed the time as a brief period of true emancipation for Blacks in America. He implicitly called for contemporary America to live up to the vision of racial equality of that time...