Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friendly sources were edgy at first, though by week's end several high-ranking policy-makers became more accessible. Wierzynski also met twice with Cover Subject William Clark, and with U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Clark took time for two sessions with White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, including a quiet dinner late in the week to discuss his role as National Security Adviser in the events. On Capitol Hill, Correspondents Evan Thomas and Christopher Redman covered the House's passage of the bill to cut off funds for covert operations in Nicaragua. Redman also detailed the debate over...
...Emperor has shared his quiet life with Empress Nagako, 80, whom he married, by traditional arrangement, in 1924. A merry music lover who has enjoyed command performances by Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson, Nagako is also a distinguished painter. On walks, the royal couple like to collect plants, which, it is said, he studies and she sketches. Together they incarnate the classical Japanese ideal of mutual devotion...
When Nohmura returned home, his wife greeted him at the door. Then over a quiet cup of green tea, the couple talked about the coming Sunday, when the whole family would be going out to the beach for a picnic. Sunday will constitute Nohmura...
While Flick said that besides the two arrests "things have been fairly quiet," by added that the Summer School Administrative Board will convent today for the first time this summer to discuss an incident involving a Summer School student and his apprehension by Harvard police Wednesday night...
...York gave me a glimpse at the outer limits of ambition and success. Most of the energy which I encountered was youthful and venturesome. But as one might expect, some of the striving was sustained by less appealing qualities. An extreme case was a vulgar Citizen Kane whose quiet dinner party I attended one summer evening I was greeted at the entrance to his Park Avenue estate by an armed bodyguard placed there for protection against a vindictive ex-wife. The host led the several of us on a tour of his urban Shangri-La, which included original chefs...