Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these names rested in quiet solitude yesterday in the serene alcove of the Memorial Room tucked away in Memorial Church. Nine mammoth stone panels grace three walls of the room, listing the names, ringed by the words of President A. Lawrence Lowell: "While a bright future beckoned, they freely gave their lives and fondest hopes for us and our allies that we might learn from them...
...Yeltsin and a battery of doctors. Not to mention the gaffes, stumbles and truncated schedules. The Russian establishment reacted with relief. "It's so good to see the country represented by something other than a walking corpse," sighed a Foreign Ministry official. And as if to emphasize the quiet shift of power from Yeltsin to Primakov, press coverage of the Prime Minister's farewell visit to Yeltsin before leaving for Vienna included a new twist. Ministers usually swing by the Kremlin to receive "instructions" before a state visit. Primakov dropped by Yeltsin's sanatorium to hear a few "suggestions...
...words of those mourners lies a hint of current attitudes toward abortion. While the desire of a majority of Americans to keep abortion legal is steadfast, it is also passive and quiet. Before too long, Slepian will join the list of doctors and their assistants killed and then buried in an unmarked media grave. Until an ad began running this week, I had forgotten about nurse Emily Lyons, maimed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., clinic 10 months ago. The bomb that killed an off-duty police officer tore through the nurse's intestines, shattered her bones and ripped...
Surely a man on the verge of turning 50, not to mention one who is busy waiting to become the King of England, deserves a bit of peace and quiet. A chance to ride to the hounds--the hunting season is about to go into full-blooded swing in Gloucestershire--or relax, at long last, into an increasingly public, adult relationship with his longtime love, Camilla Parker Bowles. Now that it appears as if history and the media are finally beginning to cast a kind eye upon him, he might even be able to rest a bit on his laurels...
Enter exclusive all-male club on Mt. Auburn Street, familiar territory for any Wellesley girl. Asked to a private dance in quiet upstairs room. Note to selves: no Harvard man likes to be called "sketchy" to his face...