Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a first half in which he hit two quiet treys, one from the top of the key and the other from deep on the right side, the California native poured it on in the home stretch...
...spots on the Garden parquet that Magic Johnson used to complain about are still around, but otherwise, basketball is a sport where tradition and leftovers from a past day pale in influence to what happens now. (Just ask the hapless C's.) And, the "now" is giving Harvard some quiet confidence...
...political debate has done nothing to quiet the sensational revelations of military wrongdoing that have flooded the press during the past two months. In a nation where men in uniform were once accorded a respect that borders on reverence, ordinary citizens were outraged to read reports that officers from the Western Group of Forces in Germany had personally profited from the withdrawal of Russian troops. The dimensions of the scandal are hard to measure, but by some estimates the state may have lost as much as $65 million to illegal financial deals involving the sale of military property in Germany...
...British and French governments providing the bulk of the U.N. forces, all factions in the country are responsible for the vicious civil war. A senior U.N. observer in Sarajevo says Rose is not exactly pro-Serb but may be anti-Bosnian. "Rose's interest is in keeping everything quiet, in preserving the status quo," he says...
Certainly, nowhere is the prospect of Republican control of the Hill as disagreeable to Clinton as on Foreign Relations. For the past seven years, the panel has been a quiet congressional backwater, politely posing few problems for Clinton or his predecessor, George Bush. But control of the panel moves from the courtly, bland and ineffectual Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island to the reactionary Helms, who promises to let few Administration positions go unquestioned. Helms has always been a bomb thrower, unafraid of blowing up reputations abroad and at home. He likened Haitian leader Jean- Bertrand Aristide to Adolf Hitler...