Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble was that the other man arrested was William Leavitt Jr., an unlikely biowarfare blackguard. The father of three owns biomedical labs in Nevada and Germany, but was known mostly for his quiet ways, civic and business responsibility and devout Mormon life-style. Indeed, he appeared confused by the entire incident. Asked at his arraignment if he understood the charges being brought against him, he said, "Not exactly." Leavitt's lawyers said their client and Harris did not possess anthrax but were instead carrying anthrax vaccine and were testing a device that would neutralize bacterial toxins in the human body...
Over in Martyrs Square, it is Funeral Day. A woman in blue marshals the ranks of girl students bused in to chant, "They killed our babies," and in English, "One, two, three, four. We don't want war" as the foreign cameras come by. There is a tense quiet, though, as 57 orange-and-white taxis drive by, each bearing the small coffin of a dead child labeled with his or her name: Haider Hatami, 25 days; Mohammed, one month. The little bodies have been stored in hospital morgues, some for weeks, against Muslim law, stockpiled for these set-piece...
...place was so rowdy and raucous, they thought, it was threatening to dissolve into chaos. What should they do? Should they pull the plug on this so-called town meeting and hustle their bosses off the center-court stage? Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was scowling, calling for quiet. Defense Secretary William Cohen looked stunned, disbelieving, his toe tapping nervously under his seat. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger hunkered down in his chair, his face stony. But they stuck it out for the full 90 minutes, raising their voices over heckling, shouts and chanted slogans like "We don't want...
...meeting the balance tends to tip toward the fellow with the loudest voice--the crank with the thickest sheaf of mimeographed papers under his arm. The Founders had a horror of direct democracy for this very reason, and the system they devised was meant specifically to calm the passions, quiet the mob and channel its energies, and create a space for sober decision making by people the voters had chosen to make decisions for them...
...started by working with the entire cast all the time in a group, with lots of improvisation and throwing things around. He was quiet and pensive before we started, but once we got going he became wild Robin Williams. They gave him lots of liberty to go crazy. In the recording studio, we were separated from the audience by a 6 inches of glass, so they could laugh their heads off - people would literally be crying from laughing so hard--but I had to restrain myself from laughing because it would pick up in the booth. One time I actually...