Word: quietest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dick Cavett Show on a color television. But whatever we have been doing, it has been personal and private, and there has been time to think. And most of us have realized that yes, the smug predictions are probably true, and the wave has crested. This is the quietest year at Harvard since Robert McNamara came to town in 1967, and Nathan Pusey's values have been reasserting themselves...
Contemplation and Search. The freshmen who are now becoming sophomores are described by academics all over the country as the quietest class in years. In part, they have seen it all in high school; in part, the economic downturn pressures them to do well academically in order to justify their family's investment and later get a good job. Some of today's freshmen seem less susceptible to peer-group pressure than their predecessors...
Jones' style on the ice reflects his mild personality. "I'm probably the quietest guy on the team," he said. "I never say much in the locker room, but it doesn't take yelling and screaming to get me psyched...
...illusion that St. Louis dwells in time present and time future, but those who live there know differently. The great underlying lethargy, the quiet acceptance of the indifference of urban life, symbolized by a ghetto that has never come close to eruption, all these make St. Louis the quietest city of its size in the world...