Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Visitors to the quiet confines of the Library of Congress reading rooms are often left scratching their heads by some bewildering text. But since last month they have had another reason for creeping feelings of paresthesia in the < cranial zone: head lice. Library staffers noticed traces of Pediculus humanus capitis on a newspaper in a periodical reading room. An entomologist identified the problem and discovered that the little critters had invaded a nearby theater and music room. All the affected areas were vacuumed and heavily doused with insecticides, and newspapers were placed in a refrigerated truck in an attempt...
...ornate Imperial Palace, Hirohito chose to live in a nondescript two-story Western- style house deep inside the palace grounds. Rather than hold court in resplendent formal dress, he preferred to putter around in battered Panama hat and short-sleeved shirt. More than formal dinners, he relished quiet nights at home with Empress Nagako, now 85, a cheerful wife with whom he had two sons and five daughters...
...that are reluctant to give up what is known as the "poor man's atom bomb." Poison gases, after all, are cheap and easy to manufacture. "All a terrorist needs is a milk bottle of nerve gas," says a British weapons expert, "and that he can get from a quiet lab in a back street of Tripoli." Thus even if a treaty could be hammered out to the satisfaction of Moscow and Washington, says Burns, the U.S. would not sign unless every nation in possession of chemical arsenals agreed to it as well...
...attractive, money-earning one. Harvard promises a "moderately priced" hotel to avoid further yuppification, a small one to dodge traffic and transiency problems, one with no public services in order to keep crowds away, and one with a Graham Gund-supplied designer label to keep architecture buffs quiet. First, who is a cheap hotel without a restaurant or view going to attract? Second, why should community residents, who complain that Harvard offers nothing to Cambridge at large, welcome a building that deliberately adds nothing ot the life of the Square, shutting out everyone but paying guests? Finally does anyone expect...
...Barry faced difficulties caused by Karen Johnson, the woman who claimed to be Barry's mistress and may have sold him cocaine. She went to jail rather than testify against him. When she got out of jail, many alleged that friends of Barry had paid her to be quiet...