Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days ago, 40 supporters and critics of the memorial gathered to try to break the impasse that threatened the memorial because of such features as the black color of the stone and its position below ground level. After listening for a while, Brigadier General George Price, retired, stood in quiet rage and said, "I am sick and tired of calling black a color of shame." General Price, who lived with and advised the 1st Vietnamese Infantry Division, is black. At the end of five hours and much shouting, General Mike Davison, retired, who led the Cambodian incursion in 1970, proposed...
...puts added responsibility on Horner, as titular head of the institution, to speak out for Radcliffe and the women's issues it largely represents-to lobby for Radcliffe's interests. When the Radcliffe Forum was eliminated two springs ago. Horner's voice was conspicuously quiet. As long as she has chosen to express herself on the foreign policy questions of U.S. arms sales, more aggressive advocacy on the home front does not seem unreasonable...
...albeit a fledgling one, and she's not quite sure how to behave. The maitre d' is wearing black tie, and Doc orders crab, a difficult food under any circumstances. Fighting panic. Suzy falls back on an age-old rule: when in doubt, move slowly. Striking a pose of quiet mystery, she eyes her partner and carefully mimics his crab-eating etiquette, staying at least two bites behind him. When dinner is over, she hasn't engaged him in brilliant conversation, but at least her poise is intact...
...that's when the real shocker came. Calvin Dixon, the proud, quiet point guard disabled for more than six weeks by a leg injury, displayed some emotion on the court. After he hit his first free throw with three seconds left and the score at 51-49, he wheeled around and gave Ferry a meaty high-five. After the second, he broke into a broad smile and launched himself toward a wildly cheering bench full of teammates...
...Beth Henley the person had not existed, Beth Henley the playwright might have invented her. Beneath that quiet exterior, there is the same flamboyance of spirit, the same belief that a crazy quilt of sweet dreams and common sense will somehow keep you warm through the night. Beth's father was a lawyer from Hazlehurst, Miss, (the scene of Crimes), her mother an amateur actress from down the road in Brookhaven (where Firecracker is set). "I was real shy when I was little," Henley says in a molasses drawl just slightly diluted by her years in Los Angeles...