Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps most upset and take greatest offense to Bob Cunha's claim that our team lacks "class." If Mr.Cunha took the time to do his homework, he would see that our team has the highest academic index of any varsity team in the Ivy League. We are a quiet and hard working team that has no troubles with the Ad Board or in the classroom. Secondly if Mr.Cunha bothered to take a poll around the University he would se we have one of the most respected and best like bunch of guys on the campus. "Class" is certainly...
...civilized society--say, for instance, a society that might be expected to respond to "constructive engagement" or "quiet diplomacy"--reserves the death penalty for crimes which threaten the very foundations of its existence. Urging disinvestment is punishable by death in South Africa. Is there any more telling evidence that divestiture might, just might, strike the match that lights the bonfire...
...Broadway, is only secondarily about espionage. As in his play and film Stevie, a small masterpiece that starred Glenda Jackson, Whitemore is more interested in private drama: the anguish of having to uproot one's bedrock beliefs about people, the calamity that results when global politics intrude on quiet lives...
There is an air of mourning around the Steffes farm. Friendlier neighbors drop by, bringing covered dishes of food. The quiet talk centers on the misfortune of Steffes, his wife Pat, 45, and their two surviving children, Kay and Bruce, 19. Without saying so, each visitor is aware that his or her farm could go next. Third- generation farmers, the Steffes had acquired 280 acres by 1966, raising livestock and planting a variety of crops. In the booming 1970s they added another 180 acres and rented 530 more. Farming began to sour for them in 1979, just as tragedy struck...
...later Democratic Party chairman. Because of O'Brien's connection with Hughes, Drosnin argues, Nixon feared disclosure of the cash in his friend's bank and ordered the plumbers into O'Brien's Watergate office. The purpose was to dig up enough Democratic dirt to keep O'Brien quiet...