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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LIES in peaceful quiet sleep, A vision came unbidden to his head: He saw the birds that fly, the beasts that creep, He saw the teeming living and the dead. Surveying all, he looked first to the north And at the pole, he caught sight of a gleam; A Cadillac in chrome was riding forth, Pulled by a twelve-man transition team. "What can this mean?" asks Bok of his stern guide, Who answers thus in Slavic-sounding voice: "This year a new man takes the Yuletide ride, Delivering gifts to rich and poor--rejoice!" Bok looks puzzled, turns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Phantasm | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

While working on his dissertation at MIT, Liberman ventured into the Yard one quiet fall day in 1972, and met a friend for lunch in the Dudley House cafeteria in Lehman Hall, once the center for many SDS sessions...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The University Tries its Students: Case Histories From the CRR File | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

...with oilfield workers: "Life isn't as quiet as it used to be. Or as nice either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocky Mountain High | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Tourists looking for a quiet vacation are becoming nervous about a Hawaiian retreat. Says Paul Abramson, who owns a Manhattan travel agency and recently visited Waikiki: "Tourist guides warned that we should go out at night only in pairs and that ladies should hold on to their handbags. I think a lot of people come home afraid." Complains Peggy Ontai, who sells conch shells at a roadside stand on Oahu: "This crime has to stop. Tourists are too frightened to drive around the island and get out of their cars." Travel agents report that greater numbers of vacationers are opting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Storm Clouds over Paradise | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Crimson netminders Cheryl Tate, fully recovered from a leg injury against B.U., and Laura Zuckerman, who came on in the third period, had a quiet afternoon in Maine, stopping only five shots between them...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Icewomen Rout Bowdoin, 9-0 | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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