Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another argument can be made against criticism. Perhaps by criticizing, American Jews are giving non-Jews an opportunity to push for a reduction in aid to Israel. In this case, simple criticism would lead to much harsher results than intended. American Jews would have to stay quiet in order to keep the situation from getting worse...
Even so, Pakistanis feared a repetition of the violence and ballot-box fraud that rapidly destroyed nearly all the country's previous attempts at democratic rule. The quiet this week at the 33,328 polling stations was hailed as a triumph of restraint. "Peace has not broken down," wrote Maleeha Lodhi, editor of the Muslim, an Islamabad-based daily. "Violence has remained well within the limits of subcontinental acceptability...
George Bush did not expect a honeymoon, but he did not get even the quiet Florida fishing weekend he had hoped for. Just after American voters overwhelmingly chose him over Michael Dukakis, the world's financial markets sent Bush a message of their own: the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 75 points, followed by the dollar's drop to near postwar lows against the yen. Investors who had sat quietly through candidate Bush's repeated taunts to Congress to "Read my lips -- no new taxes" decided that President-elect Bush had no convincing plan to cut the nation's towering...
Frustrated, I started spying on customers, looking for someone interesting to follow. After all, everybody has to buy groceries at some point, and in the quiet, wooded streets of Reading that point seemed to be Atlantic Foods. Streams of post-retirement-age couples wandered through with armfuls of catfood and spaghetti, looking unworried about the future of Social Security. A few young office folks pulled up their striped cuffs to scoop sprouts and avocados from the salad bar. Then came a guy with Bon Jovi hair and a black, flapping fringe coat; I didn't actually see what he bought...
...necessarily optimistic, which suggests that in their 264 days of touring, some personal relationships were sacrificed, others scarred or put at serious risk. Two hundred sixty-four days is a long time away to be looking for home, and the song, fragile and heartrending, ends the record with unexpected quiet, and intimacy. It is a characteristically bold, even reckless move. Whatever was given up in 1987 remains a mystery, but it is clear, now, what U2 came away with -- the best live rock album ever made. The record, in every sense, of their lives...