Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wall from some of their previous crowd-control duties, have enforced liquor laws by making more than 1,500 arrests in the beach area over the past four weeks, vs. 889 during all six weeks of the 1985 break. But merchants do not want Lauderdale to get too quiet: last year the college crowd pumped $120 million into their tills...
...quiet team leader," said Armstrong. "He leads by example...
...lease on a small plot of land. "We wouldn't just offer them a cease-fire," says an Aquino aide. "We would offer them a business deal." If last week's actions are any indication, that may not be sufficiently enticing. N.P.A. units, which had been relatively quiet during the presidential campaign, were back on the offensive. Fifteen policemen were killed in a rebel ambush in Albay province...
...Watson's natural dramatic and stylistic corollary, Linus Gelber plays the eccentric Tristan Tzara with delightful expression and intensity. In some scenes, Gelber is the quiet and effete conversationalist. Then, he suddenly will burst out into a rage of "Dada, Dada," toppling chairs over as he goes. Gelber serves as a necessary energetic interlude in a play that often becomes too quiescent...
...quiet evening just before New Year's, Dwyane Carson and his friend Arthur DeWitt, both 9, were playing in Dwyane's Northeast Houston home, when they found a loaded .22-cal. rifle in the youngster's bedroom closet. Dwyane's father, a hunting enthusiast, had never shown the boy how to handle firearms. Toying with the rifle, Dwyane accidentally shot and killed Arthur...