Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's no sign in front of the other path--a quiet road with no destination...
Seniors who opt for a "quieter"--or maybe not so quiet--final year say that they have more freedom...
...heard for years how successful we have been in combatting racial discrimination. We praise ourselves for having eliminated blatant discrimination--the name-calling, the assaults, and the Jim Crow laws. Our struggle, we tell ourselves, is to fight the subtle discrimination--the quiet, harmful fears we have of our differences. By not doing enough to combat it, however, we have allowed the blatant, violent bigotry to re-emerge...
...gone wrong with the presidential campaign. It's not that the two nominees are usually aiming straight for each other's jugular. We've come to expect that every four years. No, what's wrong with this campaign is that the fine art of lying has died a quiet death...
...getting more creative with what they can do with the uniforms, but we also keep a supply of regulation garments on hand in case a girl stretches the rules too far." What happens if a student shows up in an outfit that nothing in the school closet will quiet down? "We send her home...