Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flash is not a part of Smith's business style. He prefers plain buttons to gold cuff links, quiet fishing trips to showy vacations in St.-Tropez. Last week in a lakeside resort in Salzburg, Austria, where he was attending a meeting of his European board of advisers, Smith wore the trademark pinstripe suit. Making no attempt at being suave, he cultivates a deceptive aw-shucks manner and punctuates conversation with his favorite expression: "Holy Toledo...
Lonesome Dove, Texas, is a one-tart town and so quiet you can hear the lady's bedsprings a block away. For those with a thirst, there is the Dry Bean saloon, where customers pass time whittling the edges off the tables. It is the late 19th century. Pyramids of buffalo bones rise on the prairie, the red man is down to his last can of war paint, and a couple of old Texas Rangers have seen the future, and it works without them...
...very quiet and orderly at mealtimes," Vuilleumier says. "No one went to meals without jacket and tie, and we were served by a waitresses," he says. "You were seated by a maitred," Tower remembers...
During the reprocessing tussle, Pakistan pulled off its most audacious espionage coup. It came to light after a quiet scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, resigned in March 1976 from his post as a metallurgist at the Physical Dynamics Research Laboratory, known as F.D.O., in Amsterdam. The firm was involved in research and development at one of Western Europe's most advanced atomic installations, the URENCO uranium-enrichment facility at Almelo, also in the Netherlands. The plant is today one of Western Europe's major sources of low-enriched uranium for nuclear reactors. High-speed gas centrifuges like those at URENCO -- thousands...
Finally, after three tense days, the barricades came down. Some 70 South Korean students who had shut themselves in the second-floor library of the U.S. Information Service building in downtown Seoul decided to call it quits, partly because of exhaustion and partly because of the quiet mediation of U.S. embassy officials. But as the students left, just after noon Sunday, each wore a white headband with the inscription DOWN WITH MILITARY DICTATORSHIP...