Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear now that Jimmy Carter was on to something real and powerful. Americans did feel defensive and dispirited about their nation: cynical about its faded grandeur, alarmed by what felt like the beginnings of economic chaos and despairing of prospects for improvement. The notion of even a quiet national contentment and pride seemed quaint, implausible, slightly foolish...
...many people, the improvement is a quiet, half-conscious affair. For many others, patriotism seems the natural, handy outlet for America's jaunty spirits and prosperous circumstances. Like any other kind of love, it is an emotional catchall for all sorts of hankerings and other sentiments. "Whenever I go to Dodger Stadium, I feel very patriotic, so proud to be an American," explains Susanne Anderson, 36, a Las Vegas casino bartender. "Nowhere...
Nancy Riggings, an older, quiet, poor Black woman from Fort Worth had a horrible Sunday. She had been unable to register a single voter in three hours because everyone along her turf had already registered. She was lost in an unfamiliar part of Dallas for two hours before an ACORN search party managed to rescue her from the heat...
...what Baughan is keeping quiet is a rebuilt offensive line, which insiders say just might be one of the major surprises of the league...
Little short of a revelation will startle the quiet scholars who inhabit Andover Hall, but this summer came pretty close. The Harvard Divinity School is in the midst of an unprecedented turnover in Faculty, and now is looking for seven full-time professors...