Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jeffrey Bush his son, said yesterday that his father "led a quiet, but industrious life since his retirement," remaining in Cambridge writing and editing books and articles...
Farewell to the most recent additions to the cast. To Colonel Potter who saw the war as a Zane Grey western. To Charles Emerson Winchester III, Harvard's own representative to the 4077th. To B.J. Honnicut, whose quiet manner let him get away with murder...
...quaint notion that government is both evil and unnecessary has had its principled advocates for centuries. But a modern-day group championing that impractical idea saw its claims to respectability vanish one day last week in an eruption of automatic rifle fire just before sunset on a normally quiet North Dakota prairie. In less than a minute, Kenneth Muir, 53, chief U.S. marshal in the state, and Deputy Marshal Robert Cheshire Jr., 32, had been killed. Deputy Marshal James Hopson, 59, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. So, too, was Yorivon Kahl, 23, son of Gordon Kahl...
Kahl, who grew up on a farm near Heaton, 40 miles from Medina, had taken wintertime jobs in Texas before moving there with his wife and six children in 1967. In Crane, Texas, he was known mainly as a quiet and hard-working supervisor in a company that cleans oil pipelines with steam. Sheriff Raymond Weatherby recalls that Kahl was "polite and nice until you got him talking about taxes. Then he was off to the races." Kahl organized about ten people into a Posse chapter in Crane. He drove a Dodge pickup emblazoned with two large white stars...
...context of suspected threats and shadowy doubts, the President's crossed signals were understandable. Indeed, the first "clarifications" after the press conference only added to the confusion. TIME has learned why the U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon were concerned: after a period of relative quiet, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 40, has apparently returned to his waspish ways. In the past six weeks, he has placed additional military units on the Tunisian border, provoked religious strife in Nigeria, and sponsored terrorists in the Central African Republic. Each of those taunts was minor, but another apparently...