Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majestic masters of the daylight hours, the 22 tall ships from 18 countries. The stately succession of tall ships was a graceful ambassador from a vanished, less hectic age. As a cool breeze billowed sails and spirits and Navy guns fired in salute, some spectators reacted with the quiet awe that is more commonly found in gazing at great cathedrals. "I feel like I'm watching history," said Julie Cook of Brookville, Pa. She was indeed...
...West European leaders might have felt more urgency had South Africa been sputtering out of control. But the country appeared to be relatively quiet--at least insofar as could be determined by the press, which under the de facto censorship was more or less obliged to take the Botha government's word for it. A series of minor terrorist explosions took place in Durban, Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape, and at week's end police killed four black guerrillas near the Botswana border. Wildcat strikes and worker "stayaways" continued in about 100 supermarkets and other retail stores, underscoring reports that...
...working on his "outside game"--reaching voters with broad themes and symbols. Though Bradley can be standoffish to fellow Senators, he jokes easily with voters on the campaign trail. In an age of media-slick politicians, Bradley's very plainness can be refreshing. "There's a nice quiet irony and modesty about him," says Political Media Consultant Robert Squier. "He comes across as a thoughtful man, not necessarily a disqualification for being President...
...many of his roots and values. Like Reagan, Rehnquist left his boyhood home in the Midwest to head for the Far West, where he embraced the frontier verities of rugged individualism and a respect for law-and-order. The son of a paper salesman, Rehnquist grew up in the quiet Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood. After serving three years in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he used the G.I. Bill to go to Stanford. Graduating first in his class from Stanford Law (a classmate was Sandra Day O'Connor), he was selected to clerk on the Supreme Court...
Hollywood's magic moments used to be mostly quiet ones: Rick telling Sam to play it again in Casablanca, Charles Foster Kane muttering his dying "Rosebud" in Citizen Kane. The memorable screen moments of recent years are more, well, eye-catching. A fleet of rebel spaceships enters the Death Star for a climactic battle against the Empire's forces in Return of the Jedi. The shards of a stained-glass window are transformed into a sword-wielding knight in Young Sherlock Holmes. Runaway mine cars career at a breakneck pace through hairbreadth twists and turns in Indiana Jones...