Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rockies of Boulder, Colorado, an enormous summer resort with a history that extends to the beginning of the century. During the winter, however, snowfalls that cover the access road from November to May cut off the Overlook from civilization. Jack expects to finish a novel during the quiet months in the hotel...
...worked with a nine-year-old Hispanic student until he finally learned long division. These days, though, she lets her student teacher run the class: "I told him I don't care what he does with the kids just as long as he returns them to me quiet...
Across the country, the nation's restive black communities reacted with dismay and concern but stayed quiet, in part because the identity and motive of the would-be killer (or killers) remained complete mysteries. Local officials insisted that there was no racial tension in Fort Wayne that would account for the coldblooded attempt to slay Jordan. The industrial city of 200,000-12% black-has had no serious racial incidents since the 1960s. Said Fort Wayne Mayor Winfield Moses Jr.: "Anyone who is expert with guns could have done this...
...doing more good work than ever before." Last week Advertising Age, the industry's Guide Michelin, cited the 25 outstanding television ads of 1979. The winners included pillars of the business: J. Walter Thompson, McCann-Erickson, Doyle Dane Bernbach and the one that competitors now call "the quiet waking giant," NW Ayer...
Being a Black woman at Harvard compounded her sense of isolation. The first day she was here Wilkerson encountered the type of racist attitudes that in Shaker Heights "were kept quiet," While she waited outside the janitor's room to get the keys to her freshman dorm, another newly arrived freshman asked her if she was the janitor's assistant. "I was shocked--I expected race not to be an issue here," she says, adding that she quickly realized that although Harvard students were bright many "brought their racism with them...