Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dirty hippie there is gonna whip it out and take a leak, right there in front of everybody. They'll never be able to get the stink out of the carpet so he'll have to move, and no way they'll be able to keep quiet...
...other was a quiet, hulking former schoolmate named Ida Baker, a sort of Alice B. Toklas in search of a Gertrude Stein. Ida was never Mansfield's lover, but she attached herself as factotum, confidante and nursemaid. To Mansfield, these ministrations were occasionally suffocating but ultimately indispensable. She sometimes referred to Ida as her wife...
After a few quiet months, the city Monday released a report detailing University property purchases over the last decade. The finding--Harvard owned some 700,000 square feet more of Cambridge than it did ten years ago, a statistic that prompted the City Council to drape City Hall in purple bunting, as if for a funeral...
...solicited opinions. But it's how you do it. There's a quality of humanness, gregariousness, conviviality, whatever it is, liking that. He seems to be more withdrawn. And when you're with Carter, you always come away with a sense that he's very serious, and very quiet; you never get much of a feeling about what he himself feels...
...Soviet juggernaut. Few towns lying near the sinuous Kunar River have escaped. Chenar and Dangam, first bombed by MiGs, were later also hit by rocket-firing helicopters. The exodus of 6,000 refugees from Kunar into Pakistan has left the area between the border and the river eerily quiet. But the hills have not been abandoned. No mountain is without its militia. After escorting their women into Pakistan, most men return, climb a few thousand feet higher and join one of the scattered rebel packs...