Word: quietness
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...other thing," Gibbs said as the room went quiet. "When the President said 'I screwed up' last night, that officially ended our experiment with sipping from the waters of the Potomac," he continued, referring to the Obama team's determination not to be sucked into old Washington ways. "I, for one, don't want to look back four years from now and think, We should have done this differently." (See pictures of and read about President Obama's White House staff...
...wild during his time at Harvard Law School, attending temperance meetings and binging on theater performances. Realizing upon his graduation in 1845 that enough was enough, he wrote in his diary, “The rudeness of a student must be laid off, and the quiet manly deportment of a gentleman put on, not merely to be worn as a garment but to become by use a part of myself.”THE SOCIALLY-CONSCIOUS AND THE SOCIALITEWhen Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Harvard, it was beginning to look like the school it is today—a place...
...Isadee Gomez, who is moving into Intervale with her four children, the project has already made a tangible difference in her life. She's moving out of a homeless shelter, and Intervale - quiet, safe and green - is more than she could have hoped for. "I just took a look at our apartment and it's gorgeous," she says. "I wanted to cry. Everything is perfect...
...with a decidedly middle-aged Caucasian audience who seemed to be all dressed up, with a notable lack of irony, for #118—Ugly Sweater Parties. Traoré, a bluesy artist from Mali who sings in a combination of French, English and Bambara, took the stage to the quiet, but appreciative audience (a man in row J brought binoculars). Traoré mostly performed songs from her latest CD, “Tchamantché,” which is her first release in five years and has received much critical acclaim. “Tchamantche” marks a shift...
...thought they were really good around the goal,” Amaker said. “They stretched out with really good shooters...it’s demoralizing for our defense that they can make some of those very tough, tough shots.”While Foote contributed a quiet 10 points, the Big Red went 11-of-21 from beyond the arc. Wittman and Wroblewski combined for 27 points from three-point range alone.But not all the blame rests on Harvard’s thinly-spread defensive efforts—Cornell’s shooting...