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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team's most consistent play came from the midfield. Link Annie Velie, the squad's most effective player, turned in her quiet but rock-steady performances game after game. Pew and freshmen Betsy Torg paired with the Sudbury native at various times, making the usual mistakes rookies make but playing aggressive defense and, especially Pew, imaginative offense...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Ups and Downs | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...administration, union leaders at Harvard hold a thankless job. From all corners of the University, no matter what the specific union, isolated voices cry out for stronger action--strikes, grievances, unfair labor practice suits. The silent majority of Harvard's workers desires money in the pocket, job security and quiet. University officials no doubt relish this complacency and have an interest in fragmented unions. In the Medical Area, where District 65 of the United Auto Workers is attempting to organize clerical and technical personnel, the University will fight to the finish to prevent a union victory--as it did, barely...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Laborious Task | 11/15/1980 | See Source »

...people's affection for the city shows in more indirect circumstances still - in those quiet, unguarded moments when visitors and residents as well set aside words like access and power and amble among the monuments as subconscious patriots. Children are more demonstrative. They shout up at Lincoln's capacious ears, or take the Capitol three steps at a clip, acting as if they owned the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Place to Hate and Love | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...loons flutter at the edge of the lake as only loons can, quiet and watchful, cautious, craning their necks and rolling their eyes at the merest hint of danger. Joe ignores the loons, they will die or disappear and he will live. He will go on the road, bear the blue yoke of America's heartland, deceive and be deceived, lose everything he has and keep everything he wants...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Conjurer of Words | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

...Keeping Quiet...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Right to Silence | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

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