Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STOOD ALONE on the stage in Montreal's smoke-filled Paul Sauve Arena, cigarette absent, trying to start his speech to no avail. "Mes chers amis," he said several times in an attempt to quiet the crowd's thunder. After a quarter of an hour, Rene Levesque, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois and premier of Quebec, finally launched into his concession of defeat in Tuesday's province-wide referendum. "Until next time," he told his supporters, eliciting another raucous round of applause...
...wanted still tougher restrictions; GM's Murphy opposed forcing a halt in imports from Japan. In the midst of his plea for pressure on the Japanese, Fraser looked across the polished table and saw Murphy about to start a rebuttal. Said the U.A.W. leader puckishly: "Now, Tom, keep quiet. I didn't interrupt...
...said his Masses in traditional Latin. He delivered his weighty policy pronouncements in badly accented French to huge but quiet audiences. With a pontifical smile, he watched spectacular, sun-drenched displays of faith and affection. But not till the fourth day of his dramatic pilgrimage across the continent did the irrepressible exuberance of Africa really get to Pope John Paul...
...world peace from a member of the Unification Church, sample being "processed" by Scientology aficionados, and glance at a poster asking "have you seen the Lenticular Clouds today?" which discusses the conscious, playful clouds that have "been appearing" lately. If you head for a little respite to a quiet lunch spot, it may turn out to be run by white-turbanned members of the Happy, Healthy, Holy Organization...
...comfortable wooden frame house on a quiet, tree-lined street about a half-mile south of the Harvard football stadium is the setting for the Maitreya World Foundation. Inside are purple soft carpets, pillows for meditation, incense, and pictures and statutes of Buddhas and Jesuses and elephant-faced Indian gods. The foundation used to be called the Ashram of the World Mother but "that looked too culty, so we adopted a broader name," Mata Maitreya, the ashram's teacher, explains. "I shouldn't be the only world mother. This is a symbol. I'll be happy if every woman...