Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Single-sex housing did provide certain benefits. "We had the opportunity to be grubby, dirty and quiet at home without anyone knowing. It was a great relief to hide out and not bother for a while," says Sara McGuire Muspratt '61, while Peggy Gilkerson Heywood '61 adds that dorms were "very pleasant, small-scale homelike places...
Lowell Co-Master Mary L. Bossert described Cassidy as a quiet but active and well known member of the house. "People found him very friendly," Bossert said...
...course no one stood a chance against Miss Texas. Who sat with the quiet assurance of a Born Champion in the corner of the dressing room. Who never once reached for the rouge nor deigned to muss her hair. Who kept her pretty hands folded in her tea-and-cookies lap and looked at the camera with the half-lidded eyes of a well-fed, well-bred, fine-tuned Siamese...
...minute or so and the officials stood back with their arms across their chests and slightly maternal boys-will-be-boys frowns on their faces. When the players got tired of hitting one another they sort of did a slow dance on the ice and the crowd got real quiet and then they started slugging each other in the face again and the roar of the crowd welled up like a stock car engine at the Firecracker 500: rrroooAAARRRR! the crowd said. Just like that: rrroooAAARRR! Then the players were thrown in the penalty box and the camera showed them...
...feelings cards, pastels and calligraphy are popular, and rhyming is considered gauche. Carolyn Bean features wistful, somber messages: "Occasionally, like now, I get so blue . . ." and "As I get older, I truly appreciate the depth of your commitment to me." Russ Berrie cards of Oakland, N.J., stress quiet optimism: "Things have a way of working out" and "Where you've been . . . doesn't matter," a heartwarming message in the age of herpes and AIDS...