Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Engelhard Foundation may have remained quiet during the current controversy because it knows that Harvard's acceptance easily outweighs a student protest in the public eye. But it would be a different story if Harvard itself turned against Charles Engelhard. The foundation would be left with no alternative except to clear its name by suing Harvard; and it's difficult to imagine a court in which Harvard would not lose...
...athletic shirts that had been made up for teams that never claimed them, and bore obscure and worthless insignia. I got jackets in styles that were so passe they were almost chic again. And on my way out I got that pure-wool sweater for $6.98, in quiet tribute to a dream deferred...
...icemen twice fell behind in the first stanza, but a pair of Crimson goals--a Steve Andrew stuff off a Jon Garrity rebound and one of Cochrane's 35-ft. slapshot specials--kept the crowd of 2200 relatively quiet...
...postwar newsreel company slipping into bankruptcy as television eats into its markets. Noyce dares to cast as his hero a round-faced, bespectacled middle-aged man (Bill Hunter), the outfit's taciturn chief cameraman. Slowly a portrait emerges of an ordinary man possessed by extraordinary integrity. In its quiet way the film becomes a glowing tribute to common decency and middle-class values ? Capra without the Capracorn...
...Quiet...