Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet, self-described "wonk" (Kaku says that's "know" spelled backwards) while at Harvard, Kaku played trumpet in the Harvard Band and enrolled in two graduate courses as a sophomore. By his junior year, he had run out of courses to take...
...From quiet homes and first beginning...
...background of all this was the quiet, planetary bulk of the J. Paul Getty Trust, endowed with an astronomical $2.8 billion for running five main entities: the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Getty Art History Information Program, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts and the Conservation Institute. The Getty trust Los Angeles headquarters, to be designed by Architect Richard Meier, is bound to shift the balance of art scholarship throughout the world, turning Los Angeles into one of its indispensable centers. More than any single museum...
...still could not quite cope with what they saw. Some cried, some did not. "Nice shooting," laughed one man behind me as Barnes picked off a fleeing civilian. In another scene, Elias runs through the brush, singlehandedly ambushing an enemy squad. "Go, Rambo!" said someone. Eventually, everyone became very quiet...
...declaring herself the winner. When Philip Habib, Washington's troubleshooter-at-large, came to Manila to suggest a compromise with Marcos, she icily informed him that she would accept nothing less than Marcos' removal from office. "This is my message to Mr. Marcos and his puppets," she declared with quiet fury as the confusion dragged on, " 'Do not threaten Cory Aquino, because I am not alone...