Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gurney Professor of English Literature Jerome Buckley called White "a quiet professional [who wrote with] eloquence and dignity...always informed [on any topic] from the gardens he and his wife liked so much, to observations on the quality of life, to the ethics of national behavior...
...workers scraped at the wreckage of one building with shovels, picks and even their bare hands, a middle-aged man in a worn leather jacket watched anxiously. Two of his daughters had died in his home's collapse. A rescuer , waved his hand for quiet: a dog was barking in the rubble. One of the workers reached into the debris and pulled out a white pup, trembling and whining. "Senor," said the worker, handing the animal to the grieving man. It was his dog. He cuddled it, trying to ease his own sorrow in comforting...
Adherence to the Sullivan Principles as Harvard's investment policy is also taking a moral position. It is saying that the means to effectuate change in South Africa is through quiet, slow talk. Given the situation in South Africa, this approach appears terribly naive. The most companies which adhere to the Sullivan principals can do is provide equal working conditions for Blacks; they will not ever provide fundamental human rights. They cannot stop bloodshed, and that is what's at issue today...
Ballard had another point to make: he is vehemently opposed to any plans to raise the Titanic. As he said earlier upon his return to Woods Hole, "There is no light at that depth, and little life can be found. It is a quiet, peaceful place and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless those now found souls...
...Jackson's mission will be to prowl the Pacific depths on cruises averaging 70 days, always remaining hidden and within missile range of its targets. Says Captain Michael Farmer, 45, a lanky six-footer with an air of quiet self-confidence: "Our job is to go to sea and disappear. Our total invulnerability to Soviet strikes then becomes a factor of deterrence...