Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only because one saw fellow mortals stricken but because the industrialized society has created a shared fragility. The sources of enhancement are also the sources of fear and peril-all the chemical plants, nuclear power plants and other strangely shaped structures concocting potential salvation and destruction in remote and quiet places. The citizens of Bhopal lived near the Union Carbide plant because they sought to live there. The plant provided jobs, the pesticide more food. Bhopal was a modern parable of the risks and rewards originally engendered by the Industrial Revolution: Frankenstein's wonder becoming Frankenstein's monster...
Even so, there seemed to be no motion anywhere. There was a lifeless quiet, and it felt cold even though the sun was shining. It was impossible to escape from death and misery. Little children with haunted, running, swollen eyes told of scampering through the night, with no particular destination, knowing only that the gas was among them and would kill. They asked the soldiers where they could find their parents. The soldiers replied, "Wait here. A truck will be along and take you to the hospital. Everyone will be there. You will find Mummy and Daddy." The frightened children...
...center of a sudden escalation of protests in the U.S. last week directed at South Africa's government and Washington's relations with it. Tutu's tour culminated Friday morning in the Oval Office, where President Reagan defended his policy of using "quiet diplomacy" to prompt reforms of South Africa's repressive policies. At a press conference afterward, Reagan said South Africa's policies were "repugnant" and insisted that "we have made sizable progress in persuading the South African government to make changes." Tutu was not convinced. "There may have been some effects," the bishop...
Each hour, after students scurry across the Yard and disappear into classes, the air falls quiet except for the sound of a lone voice. A group of people gathered in front of Massachusetts Hall hear that "it is the oldest building on campus, built in 1720, and it has always been a student dorm, but now it also houses the President of the University's office...
...that quiet period, thank goodness Julie Sasner, Kelly Landry, and Genie Simmons were in the game--they saved us," said Dooley. "Kelly was fantastic and the moves that Sasner made were just terrific...