Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealers to dispose of the enormous amounts of money that pass through their hands. The grandmas in Los Angeles, for example, came to the authorities' attention when they tried to bribe a bank president not to report their deposits to the IRS. Some South Florida banks, generally small, quiet and unadvertised, are notorious as money "launderers" Local cocaine traders are sometimes brazen, sauntering into Miami banks carrying suitcases or cardboard boxed overflowing currency. Indeed, the city's banks have been embarrassingly awash in cash, much of it cocaine profits. In late 1981, the local Federal Reserve branch...
...spite of her serious intellectual pursuits, Bergvall--like many of the students at Harvard's liberal arts graduate school--quickly shatters the stereotype of a quiet scholar-to-be poring over musty tomes day after...
...quiet now at Bright Center. Gone are the sounds of blades skimming the ice, pucks careening off the boards, fans shouting "sieve." and, of course, the gong and the cowbell...
...little to further these causes. Not even the symbolic value of having a president who supports prayer in public schools and opposes abortion has helped win votes for these positions. That, after all, is what has upset the New Right and sparked the speech's most likely purpose--to quiet rumblings in Reagan's own party...
...same ones who stood silently for decades, blithely watching the infamous Chicago political machine commit every conceivable brand of corruption and electoral fraud. Washington's 30 days should definitely be remembered by voters--they are an ugly blotch on his record--but the sudden "civic concern" of his otherwise quiet attackers should be seen as nothing more than fakery...