Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last day of John Paul's life followed the routine that he had set almost from his first day in office. He arose at 5, for he found the quiet early-morning hours his most productive time. After Mass at the private chapel a few yards from his bedroom in the Apostolic Palace, he breakfasted in his dining room, worked in his bedroom till about 8, then took the antiquated elevator one floor below for the start of his official day. In halting English he told ten Filipino prelates, making their periodic report to the papacy, that Jesus spoke...
...seemed possible we might work our way through a bottomless cup of coffee and a stack of chocolate chip pancakes in relative quiet, unhassled by anything more complicated than figuring out the tip. Lulled by the reassuring buzz of the enormous glowing purple fly killer on the wall, I only wanted to hunker down over my order, and check out my fellow urban refugees who crowded the place. As the night went on, however, the crowd grew stranger. Any hope of calm was destroyed, and a hasty retreat became the only course left...
Just when the place had begun to empty out and quiet down, a family celebrating the end of another hot night on the town came in modeling green doubleknit leisure suits and singing "Happy Birthday" as they lost their last shreds of sobriety. Hard on their heels came an arrant MIT professor jauntily sporting a computer logic manual and a beautiful women some 20 years his junior...
...quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over...
...looks like a very quiet, orderly demonstration," Fox said...