Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just after dark when over a hundred plainclothes police moved into a quiet, middleclass, residential neighborhood of Milan last week. Squad cars crept inconspicuously into position to seal off a block-long stretch of the Via Negroli. Armed carabinieri stationed themselves behind parked cars and in the courtyard of the apartment buildhig at No. 30. Their prey: Corrado Alunni, 30, one of the ringleaders in the Red Brigades kidnaping and assassination of Christian Democratic Party Leader Aldo Moro last spring...
...Power Subcommittee. State troopers and Boston police kept a watchful eye on the small but noisy stream of protestors shouting, "Meldrim Thomson, Dixie Lee Ray, we don't believe a word you say." They distributed reprints of an article in Rolling Stone by Edward Kohn headlined, "The Government's Quiet War on Scientists Who Know Too Much." They chanted for about three hours, but provoked no confrontations or bad blood, just a lot of disgusted looks from Sheraton windows...
...Freedberg's statement that "if Smith would be rational and keep quiet, we could move on," has a Nixonian ring. Harvard's interests and those of the greatest art and anthropological institution in America will not be jeopardized by ego trips of scholastic primadonnas...
Danny is really a genteel, quiet guy who takes an earful too much of Bernie's ego--enough for him to ruin his relationship with sweet Deborah. Bernie, of course, never gets beyond his graphic stories...
...long period of seeming quiet, of drought, was actually a time of turmoil for Olsen. During the silent years Olsen must have read in every spare moment, laboriously copying what mattered to her, especially the phrases, sentences and paragraphs relating to her own blocked aspirations. In the brief hesitations between typing and ironing, cleaning, mending, tending to and fending for she must have rushed occassionally to jot down in hurried bursts the flashes, the sparks of insight which, though not then able to mature, could, in later years when she did have time, at least suggest directions of thought...