Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to shift attention back to American support for the Pakistani-led efforts to negotiate a political settlement for Afghanistan. Privately, however, they were furious. They were worried that the revelation would embarrass the Pakistanis into cracking down on the arms shipments. "Successful covert actions must be kept quiet," snapped one official. "That's why they're covert." Some State Department hands speculated that the leak was designed to highlight the Administration's involvement in a popular cause like Afghanistan, where the Soviet threat is unambiguous, as a way of justifying intervention in the murkier internal affairs...
...steadfast position of guardians of America's brain trust and true colors. This withdrawal has been hastened by the introduction of a new and unpredicted factor in the equation: The increase in Asian-American students. Victims of discrimination in America themselves. Asian-American citizens and residents have remained rather quiet during the Civil Rights struggle. However, as their numbers and economic circumstances have improved in the U.S. they have moved in take advantage of the doors opened by the Civil Rights movement. While there have always been many qualified Asian-Americans in the academic pool, only recently have they increased...
Claverly resident Deborah L. Stone '85 said yesterday that the water break was a mere drop in the bucket compared to the "horrible noise caused by the construction. "She added, "I've been forced to leave my room at eight and don't return until four when it is quiet...
Even though the CURL plan has thrown a wrench into the administrative cogwheel at Princeton, most students were unfazed by the changes and went on about their business. Campus-wide issues at Princeton don't attract the excitement and fury they do at Harvard. This year has been especially quiet and was termed "depoliticized" by one frustrated activist and "almost dull" by Andy Brown, who graduated from Princeton' at the height of student turbulence in the 1960s. "It's a little discouraging, actually, that this year has been so quiet," said Brown...
...released from fear by a marvelous vision of sacramental lust in a high and cosmopolitan civilization, the sweet dream of a timeless humanity, the lovers became one person again, woman inside turned outside of man. And Sarah rode the motions of her own and Michael's unconsciousness, quiet, submissive, faintly delirious, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly until the fire caught--the Volcano erupted--The Boundaries Dissolved--The Heat Flowed O*U*T!! and she screamed. And she rode the crest of the lava in tumultuous, selfless joy down the side of the mountain until slowly, slowly, she came to an easy gradual...