Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attorney's fugitive-and-extradition chief had hunted the man called Mallon with an obsession that would have impressed Captain Ahab. His name was not Eugene Mallon, as he had conned the French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many...
...tutors were unavailable for comment but seemed to be following, however prematurely, a rule that all parties on weekend nights should end by 1 a.m. We are dismayed by these early party closings, and would like to see the College make a 180-degree reversal: Harvard should cut back quiet hours, extending party time until 2 a.m. on weekends...
...legal blood-alcohol limit of 0.5. To that, last week, were added explosive toxicology results: Paul's blood also contained "therapeutic" amounts of fluoxetine (the generic name for the antidepressant Prozac) and trace amounts of tiapride, a drug used to treat various conditions and is sometimes prescribed to quiet symptoms of agitation and aggressiveness in patients being treated for alcoholism. Alcohol (in Paul's case, equal to eight or nine shots of straight whiskey) combined with the antidepressants would greatly intensify the side effects of drowsiness, impairing reflexes and vision. Paul's physician, Dr. Diane Beaulieu-d'Ivernois, says...
...hard-pressed to have the willpower to sit down in a quiet room to write or read, knowing full well that the quiet is a fragile illusion wont to be broken by any family member steamrolling through, wanting the use of a television or a telephone and creating a ridiculous amount of noise in the process. The effort becomes moot, the book rendered unreadable by the voices demanding dinner, someone to set the table, my undivided attention...
...Nine people died in the firebomb attack on tourist buses outside the Egyptian Museum ? the largest attack in Cairo in two years. Says Radwan: "Although there has been some fighting in the south of the country, Cairo has been very quiet, and this came as a surprise ? at a time when tourism is booming...