Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buddy, the other cook, came from a locale far less revolutionary--Somerville, Mass. He was a local boy who knew when to stay quiet and let his co-worker have the limelight of other people's curiosity...
...religious militancy. The clashes in Asyut, in which both police and protesters used firearms, causing hundreds of casualties, did not subside until army reinforcements were brought in. But there were no mass arrests within the army as a result of the assassination, and the country as a whole remained quiet...
...perquisites of his rank, but hardly to excess. Apart from a weakness for fine English suits and imported Dunhill pipe tobacco, his tastes and habits were simple. He usually ate only one light meal each day. A devout Muslim, he never drank wine or liquor. He liked to spend quiet evenings at home watching private movie screenings, usually of American westerns...
...Union. We wind up driving into the adversary camp people who are not natural adversaries of the West but who become so through the logic of the situation we impose upon them. I know the president of the Salvadoran revolutionary movement, Guillermo Ungo, very well. He is a very quiet social democrat. I had lunch with him a week ago here. He is in no way a Communist...
...living as a perpetual guest and jet-set darling, is a model of character development. "I had to know what it was really like. Years and years I'd wondered: What if you woke up in the morning, so rich you were famous for it. Would you try a quiet little murder or two, just to see if you could get away with it? I've found out what I wanted to know...by seeing, being, having it," Capote tells Brinnin...