Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brushed aside: ( proliferation is not an arcane and unpleasant prospect to be avoided but a reality that must be confronted. The world's spreading nuclear capability is far more dangerous than it used to be. Full recognition of that state of affairs is necessary if mankind is ever to quiet its nuclear fears...
...years later, under pressure from Washington that was in turn inspired by growing congressional concern, the French decided to stop work on the reprocessing project. By that time, however, Pakistan had reportedly obtained blueprints covering up to 95% of the project, and some French firms apparently continued to give quiet assistance to the effort until the end of 1979. Pakistan has continued to work on the plant, but no completion date can be predicted...
...quiet for the next half-minute or so. Huddled on rooftops and in the doorways of nearby row houses, flak-jacketed police officers put their hands over their ears. Then there was an orange flash and a powerful explosion that sent wood, metal and a cloud of dust flying into the air. Said a resident of adjacent Pine Street: "The blast didn't just shake the windows, it shook our entire house...
Innocuous enough, at first glance anyway. But last week a quiet imbroglio between the National Endowment for Democracy, a bipartisan organization funded by Congress, which helped pay for the bookselection process, and the International Freedom to Publish Committee, a unit of the Association of American Publishers, which appointed the selectors, developed into a nasty politico-literary dustup as the NED charged that the list was philosophically "one-sided." The IFP accused the NED of would-be censorship and then announced that it would return the $12,000 it had already received from the group and refuse the remainder...
...them to my father. They would hang me on the clothesline by my underpants. I was little, and they put me up there with clothespins. Or they'd pin me down on the ground and spit in my mouth. All brothers do that, don't they? I wasn't quiet at all. I remember always being told to shut up. Everywhere, at home, at school, I always got in trouble for talking out of turn in school. I got tape over my mouth. I got my mouth washed out with soap. Everything...