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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camp, where U.N. forces guarding the historic truce village of Panmunjom are based. At a forward observation post, he had a binocular view of North Korean military positions. Returning to Washington Sunday, Reagan could reflect on a trip that seemed successful precisely because of its lack of high drama. Quiet cementing of relationships with allies lacks the theatricality and tension of crisis negotiations and the dispatching of troops and ships, but it is vitally important. U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Mike Mansfield is fond of asserting that since the U.S. and Japan together account for a third of all economic production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling On Close Friends | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...through it all there still remains a quiet confidence in Giella, a knowledge that virtually none of this in his fault and that this is just another of life's learning experiences...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Deserves credit, shuns dessert | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...very quiet in New Haven, Connecticut in late November at four o'clock in the morning--so quiet you can hear the traffic signals turn, so quiet you can hear the street lights buzz. And if you listen very carefully, you can feel the vibrations of the Yale University Police force's patrol car, as it inches down Elm Street...

Author: By Thomas J.meyer, | Title: The New Haven Nine | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...glow was getting lighter, and you could barely see the outline of Harkness Tower, but it was still very dark and it was still very, very quiet in New Haven, and it seemed we had been sitting there for an hour when the white car pulled into the parking lot, and our friend Amy got out, and after her, a police officer...

Author: By Thomas J.meyer, | Title: The New Haven Nine | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

Organizers of the Harvard-Yale party in Colorado are a bit more relaxed. "It will probably be a quiet event," says Rocky Mountain Harvard Club President D. Bruce Ellsworth '48. "People will watch the game, eat a bit, drink a bit, and then leave," he adds...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: The old boy network | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

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