Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fifth Avenue sidewalk and began to work on a picture, sighting along his brush from time to time, looking at the fuming steel flow of jammed traffic that inched downtown. When spectators walked up for a look at his canvas, they found that he was placidly painting a quiet meadow with a stream running through it. The man admirably embodied certain crucial New York survival traits: exhibitionism, humor, and possible derangement...
...newlyweds gave no sign that they were troubled by the speculation. After a couple of quiet days in the Moscow Intourist hotel, they prepared to depart for a Siberian honeymoon at Lake Baikal and the town of Magadan, the site of several Stalin-era prison camps. Afterward, the couple will share a 2½-room flat with Sergei's mother until they buy an apartment of their own. Christina says that she will assume the quiet life of a Russian housewife and start a family. "I don't know why reporters want to find out something spectacular about...
...passengers) and shorter hops (100 to 200 miles), the nationalized British Aerospace plans to roll out its four-engine Model 146-200 in 1982. A few years later, Boeing hopes to introduce a far more advanced short-haul plane; it will be adapted from the QSRA (for Quiet Short Haul Research Airplane), which Boeing developed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plane will be ideal for commuters, since it can take off and land on extremely short runways. Reason: its four engines mounted atop the wing blow exhaust over the upper surface, creating phenomenal lift...
...John Brown left Oldham General Hospital early one evening last week, he had no idea it was to be a special night. He and his wife Lesley, due to give birth in about nine days to the world's first baby conceived outside the human body, had spent a-quiet day together reading the papers and watching television. But shortly thereafter, rumors began to circulate that the baby would arrive soon. Reporters and photographers thronged the entrance to the maternity unit. At 10:45 p.m., John Brown was summoned back to the hospital. Soon after midnight, the announcement came...
...quiet hospital in suburban New Jersey, 13 patients die mysteriously during 1965 and 1966. Ten years later, a reporter for the New York Times, M.A. (for Myron Abba) Farber, reveals that mostly empty vials of a powerful and potentially lethal drug called curare were found in the locker of a certain "Doctor X." The state begins to investigate. What some experts believe to be traces of curare are found in exhumed bodies, and a grand jury indicts the man Farber, in his stories, had carefully called only Doctor X?Surgeon Mario Jascalevich?for allegedly murdering five patients...