Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frank Brody, mid-30s, preparing to wrestle, unclasps his black hair from a ponytail, douses it under a tap and lets it hang limp and long about his huge shoulders. "I might work ten or 15 days in a row," he says softly. "I try to save money, live quiet and plan for retirement," he adds. Well-known wrestlers like Brody earn anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 traveling around the U.S. and to Japan-extending their professional lives into late middle-age-but for hundreds of lesser known wrestlers, the work can be unrewarding. Earning little, they spend...
...later adopted a more conciliatory posture after his vice-presidential running mate, Hugo Barrera, endorsed Duarte's notion of talks with the guerrillas and asked only that the President spell out "clear, definite and concrete means" toward a solution to the civil war. The right's quiet response was a sign of another Duarte triumph: during his four-month tenure, the President has managed to reassure most of his conservative critics of his essentially moderate views...
Harvard senior lightweight crew Captain Paul Natterson tends to lead by example rather than talk, but his quiet dedication is paired with a commitment to one thing--winning...
...underlying the quiet commitment is a winning attitude that may bring the Crimson lightweights a little closer to the head of the pack tomorrow...
During a year of shadowy seclusion, his cantankerous volubility has given way to a quiet, mysterious, world-weary amiability. Looking almost spectral in a rumpled suit, Menachem Begin, 71, left Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem after a successful prostate operation. It was the former Prime Minister's first public appearance since he resigned 13 months ago. When he emerged into the hospital's parking lot, leaning on the arm of his daughter Hassia, Begin softly praised his doctors and nurses and said in Hebrew, "Happy New Year to the people of Israel." He then was driven...