Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles Correspondent Dan Goodgame spent a long night with dedicated doctors, most of them black, in a hospital emergency room in the city's violence-ridden south-central ghetto. "It was a relatively quiet night," says Goodgame. "Only five gunshot wounds, four serious stab wounds and four head injuries from clubbings." In the line of duty, Atlanta Reporter Frank Washington once found himself threatened by a "steelyeyed" street tough in Miami's Coconut Grove area. "If he saw me hanging around much longer, he would kill me. It was that simple, and that...
...unseat the defending champion McEnroe with any particular flair. His serve was not particularly strong, going in only 57 percent of the time. He broke McEnroe only three times, while losing his serve just once. He hit a quiet 42 winners and made 18 unforced errors. He even double-faulted four times...
Fowles is braced for some unfriendly reviews of A Maggot, at least from English or rather British, critics. His countrymen, he says, are still devoted to "quiet, workmanlike, parochial novels" like those of Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor. "I'm not against that," he says. "I'm just against the idea that it's the only way to write novels and be esteemed in Oxbridge." Floods of mail, piling up in cardboard boxes around his desk, assure him that he is esteemed around the world. But for someone worried about finding time to finish all his projected books, this...
...impressive start that had been made in mending relations between the Sikh community and the central government, which had been severely strained even before the army assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar last year. In the month since the settlement was signed, Punjab had been unusually quiet, giving Gandhi the confidence to announce elections for Sept. 22. After Longowal's death, Gandhi changed the date to Sept. 25 to allow for the mourning period. The elections will be the first in five years and will end nearly two years of direct rule of Punjab from New Delhi...
...officials seemed uncertain of what steps to take next. Four years of "constructive engagement," a policy of quiet diplomacy designed to nudge the South African government toward racial reform, have produced few results. Initially, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane urged South Africans to seize upon the vague hints of future reforms in Botha's Durban speech. He suggested that "those leaders on both sides who are looking into the abyss of massive violence" should "challenge this government, ask them to put their money where their mouth is." But later, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes took the unusual step of publicly...