Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just about every day begins with a quiet, dreaded question: whether Mike or Lori will drive Sam to Lori's mother's house for the day. She gets a knot in her stomach thinking about it, hoping to avoid a fight. Mike says he ends up doing it about half the time, though he complains about how much gas the 20-minute trip uses up. They rarely kiss each other goodbye in the morning. There's no time. Lori is usually out of the house by 7:30 and at work by 8. She skips breakfast but sips a Diet...
...past Alomar had always been polite with umpires. This season was no different. Known for his incomparable talent on the field, and his quiet manner in the locker room, this act doesn't fit the image of the Alomar we have watched for years...
...work should be placed in the study or the library so as to avoid sleeplessness and stress. But for most of us, our bedrooms are our only rooms, not counting the windowless common rooms littered with banana peels and CD jewel boxes. We have no place reserved for quiet and rest. The Harvard houses contain no saunas, no shrines for quiet contemplation. We are bereft of calming influence...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: By calling this Mideast summit, President Clinton has placed himself in a win-win situation politically five weeks before his election. "Clinton's goal is to quiet down the violence before election day," TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports. "But his political need for peace is not pressing. He is in a no-lose situation. He has already established strong ties with American Jews. By calling this summit, he is seen as trying to whatever he can to help the peace process." While Simons says Clinton is unlikely to apply too much pressure on either side, the President...
Hillary's husband was no help in keeping Whitewater issues quiet. In a TV interview with Jim Lehrer of the Public Broadcasting System, the President was asked about possible pardons for Jim and Susan McDougal, onetime owners of Madison Guaranty and co-investors with the Clintons in Whitewater, and Jim Guy Tucker, Bill Clinton's successor as Governor of Arkansas. All three have been convicted of fraud in cases brought by Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater special prosecutor. Clinton replied, "I've given no consideration" to pardons; then he described in some detail the procedure he would follow...