Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain room in a certain factory in a quiet part of South Boston something very strange is happening. Every day, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., a steady stream of men can be seen entering and leaving this room. When they go in, the men have a vaguely scruffy look and finger a thick stubble of half-grown beard. When they go out, however, they are smooth and trim, clean-shaven, and smelling faintly of lotions and creams. This is the Shaving Research Room, the living heart of the world's largest razor blade factory: Gillette Corp.'s World Shaving...
With the current talk of appointments to the Court, there will be arguments over questions like abortion, judicial restraint, potential justices' intellectual abilities, and ideology in general. Absent will be the quiet sense, character, and integrity for which Potter Stewart will not be forgotten...
...Massachusetts Hall jedimaster said he was "completely, 100 percent, you betcha" satisfied that the dapper prince could walk the halls of the News Office's plush Holyoke Center penthouse, appearing to be doing nothing but undoubtedly working with the quiet efficiency common to all Harvard administrators, just as well as the slightly less dapper Rosen...
...night is half over, and there are only six more hours to go. Outside, the campus is quiet. By this time on most nights, Room 13 has received, on the average, one drop-in and two phone calls...
Obviously, Carol Trowbridge--with one case already splashed across newspaper headlines--had no stake in agreeing to stay quiet. She had suffered through the emotionally draining trauma of the assault and a criminal trial, but when she was faced with the prospect of a prolonged legal battle with the Goliath of the Square's landlords, she threw in the towel...