Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know differently, Sunset Park at this hour could be mistaken for a small New Hampshire town. The shorn trees in the park, the cemetery on the hill, the quiet churches, the low houses looking for their occupants' return at the day's end. At P.S. 314, Diana Hart-Johnson rehearses the Nutcracker presentation scheduled for Christmas week. Teenage boys, galoots, clomp on the stage and attempt to learn their dance as the Spirit of Winter Dreams. The smaller children make soldiers' hats. The windows of the school blaze out into the cold...
...rampage left Iowa perplexed, as well as anguished. "Nobody thought Dale would do things like that," said a farmer who knew Burr. "He was quiet, didn't smoke or drink, didn't socialize much. His life was his wife and that farm of his." But Burr felt overwhelmed by his debts: in addition to the Hills Bank loans, he owed $139,900 to another bank and nearly $10,000 to his brother-in-law Forbes. Nevertheless, with his land alone worth about $2,000 an acre, his farm still had enough value to protect him from foreclosure. "Burr...
...long ago, for instance, child mortality rather than our contemporary dilemmas of how to keep kids quiet in the classroom and fair on the playground was the main problem. Consequently, children were taught differently. Death appeared often in rhymes and stories. "Ring Around the Rosy," for example, is about the Black Death, and "Hansel and Gretel" contains images of infanticide and immolation...
...write to you on the eve of May 25th, the last day of finals. Lamont is quiet, deserted. Only a few stragglers like me remain, weary from studying. The building, too, softly bids farewell to the last of the irritated but understanding friends. Goodbye, Fair Harvard. The day will come when even this message will be rubbed away, but God knows, you are in the forever. I'll miss you. 5/24/85...
...Small, quiet American towns have become popular havens for Japanese manufacturers. This week Toyota Motor is expected to join the crowd of companies building plants in small towns. Toyota will announce plans to spend more than $500 million to construct a plant in Georgetown, Ky., a bucolic community twelve miles north of Lexington in the gently rolling hills of Scott County. When it opens in 1988, the factory will produce 200,000 midsize cars annually and employ between 2,000 and 3,000 workers...