Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University must immediately provide safe 24-hour study areas, as well as an efficient escort for students to get there. As we move into reading period, there is no secure and quiet place to study in the middle of the night. Even Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson said that the new security measures installed in the Science Center would not prevent future attacks...
...occupation. An auto mechanic, he worked hard to keep his large family in their 400-year-old two-room ancestral home in the Casbah of Nablus. He lived for his children, hoping they would be educated enough someday to become doctors and teachers. Then politics intruded into his quiet life and, given the frequent general strikes called by intifadeh leaders, he decided to quit his job in Israel. The $130 a month he now earns as a guard at a religious school is not nearly enough to provide even modest comfort. "Financially," says Abu Ali, as he is called...
...blinks back tears. "I start bleeding inside when I see my husband humiliated and my sons beaten." Yet she does not attempt to dissuade her sons from active involvement in the uprising. Opening a photo album, she stares at the face of the Khaled she remembers as a "very quiet boy, obedient and very sensitive." In the next breath she proudly praises him as a "Palestinian nationalist...
...Hecht, if you are looking for a quiet place to eat your lunch, reach a newspaper or kick a soccer ball, I highly recommend JFK Memorial Park. If you are looking for a tribute to a great man, enter the large red building to your front and learn something. Charles W. Hooper...
Anderson, who was once a sheriff in a county like this one, is much more the compassionate pragmatist. He wants a quiet investigation, conducted through sidelong glances, little toe-scuffing chats with the locals and the free play of his instincts. He can kick into angry overdrive with a grin still on his face, and is not above conducting a shy, country-boy courtship of a key witness (Frances McDormand) to get on with his job, which, as he sees it, is simply to find the criminals, not change the world...