Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grenada has been more quiet than serene for the past couple of weeks, like a drunk sobering up after a bender. A kind of national hangover would be understandable: the tiny country has just endured four years of supercharged socialist revolution, a week of political chaos, a U.S. invasion, then a few giddy days simply feeling liberated. But what happens next is uncertain, and Grenadians and the American invaders both seem to be getting cranky. Military occupation, no matter how well intentioned, is never pleasant. "For the fact that the U.S. came, I say thanks," remarks Kevin Williams of Grand...
...drug produces a kind of mellow euphoria. Introduced in 1965 as a prescription sleeping pill, it was designed to provide a "quiet interlude," hence the name: Quaalude. But the sedative, whose generic name is methaqualone, became a notoriously abused drug. In a dubious tribute, one rock star even had a character in his act named Quay Lewd...
...Harvard, the volume of heckling went down significantly each time the protesters were asked for quiet, and all of Weinberger's remarks could be heard clearly on the WHRB simuleast. What the majority opinion doesn't address is the basic imbalance of "free speech" dramatized by the forum. Weinberger, with all the resources already available to him, came to Harvard not to debate issues but, as the majority puts it, "to give a standard speech" on the Administration's intents...
Albion Kent, who lives on the ground floor of the same building said, "I'm surprised. It's a quiet neighborhood...
Later this week McCarthy will attend a symposium on the Kennedy administration at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, according to Terry C. Quiet, a Government graduate student and advisor to the Conservative Club...