Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That someone turned out to be Amir, a third-year law student at the religious Bar Ilan University. One of eight children raised in an Orthodox family in Herzliyya, a town north of Tel Aviv, Amir was quiet and unprepossessing, except when it came to the subject of peace with the Arabs. He fraternized with members of a right-wing group called Eyal, also known as the Fighting Jews. According to a friend, Amir once said he felt he had to do something to stop the peace process, but the friend dismissed Amir's words as an empty threat...
...trial this week, did run the Church of Unspeakable Acts. But a growing number of citizens, initially relieved that a despicable evil was being rooted out of their midst, have become alarmed by Detective Perez and his allies in CPS, who see abuse around every corner of this quiet community of 24,000 in the foothills of the Cascades. In the nearly two years since Perez began his work, D.E.'s memory has borne as much fruit as the town's apple orchards. Most people were sympathetic when she first accused her parents, who are now serving sentences for abuse...
...beautiful home in Brentwood, but that doesn't make him a hero to millions of abused women who live in greater fear because of his not-guilty verdict [PRESS, Oct. 23]. Rather than talk about knocking that chip off Marcia Clark's shoulder, Simpson should just keep quiet and forget about big advertising contracts. GEORGE A. DEAN, Southport, California...
...such handy substitutes for an overall sense of powerlessness, the ceding of sovereignty. Buchanan often reminds audiences of the 15 Americans killed by friendly fire while on patrol protecting the Kurds in northern Iraq. "The Vice President of the U.S. issued a formal statement," Buchanan declares with quiet fury. "He said the parents of these young Americans can be proud they died in the service"--and then he pauses--"of the U.N." After the moans and boos of the crowd subside, he continues: "I tell you, when I get to that Oval Office, never again will young Americans be sent...
...Harvard contingent was relatively quiet, but the turnout of around 40 was must larger than that of similar rallies in the past...