Word: quieter
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...Today we have the summer's last major comedy: Superbad, produced by Apatow and co-written by Rogen. It's about a pudgy, mouthy slob named Seth (Jonah Hill) and his quieter, slightly more kempt buddy Evan (Michael Cera) who want, with variously intense degrees of desperation, to get laid before they graduate from high school. At the end of a night of wacky hijinks, the lads do wind up in a sleeping bag, exchanging intimacies with...each other...
Even with the dramatic increase in American forces there are still areas where 1-15 has trouble maintaining a constant presence. But Block said there was no comparison between Fallujah in 2004 and his current assignment. "This one's a lot quieter," he said. "Our area of operation is much more secure." Sgt. Salgado agrees. On his last deployment, in volatile Diyala province, Salgado said his unit "got hit with IEDs [improvised explosive devices, that is, roadside bombs] on a daily basis." Since returning to Iraq in April the unit has found a couple of roadside bombs before they went...
Bill France Jr. was smaller and quieter but no less visionary or hardworking than his dad. During the construction of Daytona International, he would be on site dawn to dusk, driving a bulldozer, wielding a shovel, whatever had to be done. Later he would work at the family racetracks as a flagman or scorer. He was ready for the reins when they were given...
...Michael J. Abramowitz ’85, a former president of The Crimson who covered many divestment-related stories, agreed that the early 1980s were a quieter period in South Africa divestment protests...
...effective at drawing a large part of the undergraduate population, but do little to spark new friendships and relationships based on common interests. The reputation and budget of the CEB seems disproportionately dependent on the success of such celebrations. Smaller house events and socials, in contrast, are cheaper, quieter, and more contained than the College’s carnivals and concerts, but are perhaps more important in terms of community building. Instead of placing so much emphasis on Yardfest and the Harvard Carnival, the CEB would be better advised to turn its attention and focus to funding to the litany...