Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went back to The Crime the next fall, kept quiet, sucked up, worked hard, and I got elected. I already told you the rest...
...East Coast, Come to meet the people, You can study piano privately, Boston is a real city, Harvard has everything. I came, to do somethingdifferent. In our rooming group of four, I was theWest Coast representative, one of two musicians,oblivious to things Jewish, and quiet. I began todiscover the yellow of my skin along with everyoneelse...
...Class of '61 was, like most, a reflection of the times. Our four years came during the second Eisenhower term and it was a time of rest. We were between Korea and Vietnam, and, like the country as a whole, it seems, floated on a quiet stream...
...Cuomo has identified exactly how he responds to attacks. Recently he analyzed himself in the diary. "The first phase is the defensive one," he wrote. "For a short time there is regret, distaste, a desire to return to solitude, separation, the back of the store with the partitioned quiet. But only briefly. Time to fight back. Then the desire for separation turns to an eagerness, even a combativeness. I become almost comfortable with the idea I am under siege." Under siege, Cuomo can be hard. Last year when Democratic Leader Robert Strauss commented that if Cuomo became a presidential candidate...
...years the affable, English-speaking Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoli Dobrynin, had served as an invaluable back channel for quiet negotiations between the two superpowers. When Dobrynin was tapped in March for higher duties as a Central Committee Secretary in the Kremlin, diplomatic circles speculated that the Kremlin would pick as his successor another Americanologist, perhaps one of the highly regarded new generation of experts from the Foreign Ministry. So it came as a shock last week when Moscow announced that its new envoy to Washington was Yuri V. Dubinin, 55, a West European specialist who speaks little English...