Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday, exactly one week from the moment of the explosion that tore apart hundreds of lives, Oklahoma City came to another halt. Gathered at what used to be the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, rescue teams briefly stopped picking through the wreckage and stood in quiet reflection. All over the city people bowed their heads. Outside of town, traffic stopped along Interstate 40. Beyond, in towns and cities around the country, in churches and offices and in the White House, the same pause was observed. For one minute, the unspeakable was commemorated by the unspoken...
...leave a full-page ad in the Harvard Crimson. Bernhard, one of Harvard's unsung heroes, should tell the world what he has accomplished here, but he'd be too modest to use it. So, I'd just leave him a coaching job at Harvard. He exemplifies the quiet leader in soccer and baseball, and this year he finally received accolades for the soccer team's success...
Fernald said yesterday that he had hoped tokeep this incident relatively quiet, but that hehad been encouraged by colleagues in thepsychology department to discuss the incident...
...days, authorities kept McVeigh in jail, not connecting their quiet, uncommunicative prisoner with the police sketch. No one inquired about the young man, who asked only when he would be getting out. Five minutes before he was due to go before the Noble County court on Friday morning, where he might have walked away on $500 bail, district attorney John Maddox received a call from the FBI telling him to hang onto the prisoner...
...participated in the meeting: "He just sat there by himself and collected his thoughts." A few minutes later, Clinton spoke with a mixture of anger and empathy. He labeled the bombers "evil cowards" and vowed they would be found and "treated like killers." He ended simply and with quiet power. "Meanwhile," he assured the nation, "we will be about our work...