Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet Mexican American puts his postwar experience succinctly: "Other people got invited to parties. I got invited to fights." Everyone laughs...
...acrimonious debate over Jacobo Timerman's views [June 22] should not detract attention from the plight of thousands in the jails of Argentina. Quiet diplomacy may suit President Reagan, but we ordinary citizens must call attention to the fact that the detention of many Argentines without charges and for indefinite terms violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Argentina's constitution as well as the conscience of concerned people everywhere...
...quiet man with a hint of gray around the temples, Quraishi is somewhat aloof from the press. When asked for an interview, he sometimes demands written questions in advance. If he dislikes what he is being asked, he substitutes his own questions and pens a response...
Sanders succeeded the late John H. Knowles '47 as head of MGH. Hospital sources said yesterday Sanders was a quiet and efficient administrator, while Knowles was a vocal national spokesman on health care issues. Knowles left MGH in 1972 to head the Rockefeller foundation...
Drug laws, in the U.S. classify cocaine as a narcotic, along with opium, heroin and morphine. Yet the last three are "downers," which quiet the body and dull the senses, while coke is a stimulant, or "upper," similar to amphetamines. It increases the heartbeat, raises blood pressure and body temperature, and curbs appetite. Like a shot of adrenalin, coke puts the body into an emergency state...