Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought that it would keep him quiet and alive," Bean-Bayog said...
...part of the Cincinnati, Ohio, public school district, simply call it "the dungeon." Students have more descriptive -- if unprintable -- names for the small windowless cell. Though the prison bars are just painted on the cinder-block entrance, the punishment is real. Delinquent students must remain in the room -- absolutely quiet -- all day, even eating at their desks. "It's so hot and so boring," moans a seventh grader named Lance, 12, serving day two of a three-day sentence for tardiness. His pencil is worn to the nub from writing "I will follow school rules" 200 times. (The record...
Equally disturbing was the way some scientists knowledgeable about the case -- and some government officials -- kept quiet about Poisson's misdeeds for years. The fraud was detected in 1990, Poisson admitted at least some culpability in 1991, and yet most patients and doctors didn't learn of the problem until the Tribune publicized it in 1994. To many, the affair smacked of a scientific cover...
...renaissance of grandfathering may be at hand, if George Bush has his way. With a quiet vengeance, he has spent his year of White House afterlife avoiding the lofty traditions of ex-Presidents. "Deimperializing" the presidential retirement, as he puts it. In his preferred role, Bush would be delighted to lead America's 19 million grandfathers back to the playgrounds, classrooms and fishing holes to dispense concern and love for kids...
...grandchildren claim a large slice of him. "Doro ((daughter Dorothy Koch)) brought down her Bobby ((10 months)) the other day. I was down on the floor crawling around and watching him follow me. A total joy. I mean it." So is the time he spends with his quiet 18-year-old grandson, George P. "He is a silent being. But just being there...