Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After that outburst all remained quiet until the bottom of the fourth when Navy's Mike Nichols started things off with a single. A Tony DrCesare error allowed Mid-shipman Rick Wilson to reach first, and Tom Baker chipped in an RBI single. After a walk loaded the bases, Tony Rodgers doubled to give the Midshipmen a 3-2 lead...
Prospects for a quiet summer in Cambridge are not good. War is brewing. Lines are drawn. Initial thrusts have been met, parried, and returned. The early private skirmishes in the argument over private vs. municipal ownership of a cable TV franchise in Cambridge threaten to erupt into a full-scale battle by November, at which time the city's voters will be asked to register their opinion on the matter in a public referendum...
...make us feel a fine-tuned understanding of Jean-Harris likes to analyze herself in terms of popular psychology. (Alexander notes that Harris was much influenced by Gail Sheehy's Passages). "Defying Dad was the main reason I married Jim," she says. "Also, unlike Dad, he was very quiet." Alexander seems content to accept in large part Harris's self-analysis, and indeed never questions why Harris needed to indulge in this sort of speculation. It is ironic and sad that Alexander fails to analyze her subject in the depth crucial to a defense of Jean Harris. For she believes...
...decision not to feed, or treat, an infant is an even more poignant one, and it is often made quietly for some of the 362,000 seriously ill infants born each year in the U.S. One recent case was far from quiet, however, and the result may change some pediatric practices. At his birth last April in Bloomington, Ind., "Infant Doe" had Down's syndrome, a defect associated with mental retardation, and a deformed esophagus that prevented him from eating and drinking normally. The parents, acting for their child, decided against repairing the esophagus. The effect would have been...
...says. "I think so. They say fame is fleeting. I hope so." One drawback is never being allowed to be alone on a golf course. In Ireland once, he called for a dew sweeper's teetime at Ballybunion Golf Club and asked the pro to keep it quiet. When Watson arrived, 3,000 Irishmen were waiting. "I just miss the beauty of an empty golf course," says Watson, who can rhapsodize about the fragrance of Augusta when the sun goes down, or the sound at Cypress Point when the wind comes up. "I hear people wishing golfers would...