Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the past decade, 250,000 residents have been made homeless, and thousands have died. Some 10,000 children are orphans, many with no last names, only painful memories. "That's Ahmed," says a teacher, pointing to a quiet four-year-old in West Beirut's Islamic Orphanage. "He lost his parents in the Sabra and Shatila massacre two years ago. He's retarded, but we do not know if he was born that way or suffered some unfathomable shock during the killings." Ahmed sits, uncomprehending, his large brown eyes staring up at the visitors...
...second thought, I decided to stay here. It would be relaxing and quiet with everyone gone. Chance to catch up on some reading. Get to know Boston better...
...government takes action to quiet opposition protests...
...Washington public relations firm. It is common for assistants to shield the great men for whom they work from the importunities of outsiders. The tendency to protect Reagan, even to answer questions that were clearly addressed to him, went beyond the usual. As a result, Reagan was a rather quiet dinner companion...
...want to say we are very, very sorry I for what has happened," Mayor Raymond Flynn told the quiet widow, "and this is a small way of the city meeting its legal and moral obligation." In the tiny kitchen of her home in Boston's Roxbury ghetto, Patricia Bowden accepted the check for $843,498.37. Thus, in quite a different way from Miami, ended a case of police use of deadly force...