Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student section, once quiet, once drab, is alive again. First it was the Big Guy. Now, five bunnies and a few of their non-bunny friends...
...before the game, it's quiet. At the beginning of the game, seats are still empty. When it's late in the third period and Harvard's up by 15 goals, everyone's snoozing...
...couldn't believe it," Murphy said. "All the way [to upstate New York] the bus was quiet. Everybody was studying. Only at Harvard...
...account of the medical and psychological sex-change procedures that turned James Morris into Jan Morris). It is worth noting that when she writes about the "architectural hodgepodge" and "irresistible activity" of Hong Kong, she does so as a visitor, not as a permanent resident. Home base is a quiet village in Wales where, one can reasonably assume, the feng shui has been good for centuries...
After Tanzanian troops and Ugandan rebels ended the bloody regime of Idi Amin Dada in Uganda ten years ago, the deposed dictator retreated into quiet exile in Saudi Arabia. But last week he stepped off an Air Zaire jet in Kinshasa and tried to enter the country under a false passport. Zaire officials are expected to put their unwelcome visitor on the next plane back to Saudi Arabia. But it remains a mystery whether Amin, who was traveling with his son, was merely trying to visit Zaire or making his way back to Uganda...