Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's strategy may be to stay quiet in hopes that, without his support, no viable alternative plan will surface, and then to push his plan through easily became of lack of specific opposition, the Times article said...
...LEAST one way, you really have to admire Interior Secretary James G. Watt. During the one long year of his incumbency, Secretary Watt has demonstrated that the Department of the Interior need not be the subdued and quiet corner of the government it had been for so long. Watt has shown with true eclat that his department can generate a swirling storm of controversy every bit as well as the big boys at State and Defense. In fact, he has succeeded in making his policies, his picture and his off-color remarks a regular feature of the daily papers...
...into the hillside. One chill morning last month, seven men-including three of her sons and a grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder. Out of the hole in the hill roared thick black smoke, fire, machinery fragments and a flutter of paper currency, the money ripped from the pockets of the seven...
...amateur golf champion and professional basketball coach, Manotoc disappeared Dec. 29 after a quiet, private dinner at a Manila restaurant with Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26. The couple had been wed in a civil ceremony in Arlington, Va., three weeks earlier, after Manotoc had obtained a quickie divorce from his first wife, in the Dominican Republic. The bride's family took a dim view of the pairing, however, and the groom's family subsequently accused the Marcoses of involvement in his disappearance...
...shows a strong instinct for seeking out and lauding the crumbs of humanity he finds in the interstices of an inhuman world. The appearance of crowds of Valeria's friends at her funeral dressed in the threadbare finery they saved from the pre-way years is an occasion for quiet joy. And in the give-and-take between Corde and his wife. Bellow demonstrates his acute sense of the way emotional exchanges are made in the world...