Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet morning, and we were lying in bed, talking about what the day would bring. Suddenly I heard the sound of planes, and I said, "Those aren't our planes." Jim called his base and asked if he should come down. They said...
Acquaintances described DeLisle, who earned $31,200 a year as a service manager for a tire store, as hardworking and quiet. His wife, who had studied criminal justice in college, was rarely seen without the children. Wyandotte + police chief Edward Rothermal assured the Detroit Free Press, "This was a loving couple, good family people." Hundreds of area residents left toys and flowers at the accident site, in memory of the lost children and in sympathy for the parents...
There is not much the watching world can do to stop it. Bitterly stung by previous attempts to serve as a buffer among Lebanon's feuding militias, Europe and the U.S. steered clear of direct intervention, appealing instead for a campaign of international pressure to quiet the guns. The U.N. Security Council urged an immediate cease-fire. Pope John Paul II blamed Damascus for "genocide." But the pleas had little impact on a situation that is governed by passion and irrationality. Unless a cease-fire can be brokered quickly, Syria and its allies might risk an all out assault...
...gathered to listen to her. "We are grateful to those who are giving the people practice in being brave," she snapped. While an officer recited over a loudspeaker the law prohibiting gatherings, Suu Kyi used her own microphone to confront the intruders: "May I request that the loudspeakers be quiet. I can control this crowd. You don't have...
...years ago, research librarian Edwina Barron, 46, rented a condo in Euclid, a mostly white Cleveland suburb. Just a month later, she fled to a bungalow in a quiet, racially mixed neighborhood in Cleveland. Here she describes an encounter with a white neighbor who had been drinking that occurred just one night after she moved into the Euclid condo. The incident persuaded...