Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claim that a Bic lighter ignited in her front pocket in 1983, causing burns over 25% of her body. The circumstances of the other cases are less widely known because Bic has settled most of them out of court, with the stipulation that the claimants agree to keep quiet...
Flying home, Leonard turned to his parents in a quiet moment and said, "Dad, do you know I'm the middleweight champion of the world?" It may be the least of what...
Harvard is now a very quiet place. And Harvard's has saved itself some money, which is what it's most concerned about anyway...
Amid the jumble of stalls, dense with the flow of human traffic and clattering with the din of vendors hawking wares, shoppers poke animals for tenderness and watch closely as purchases are weighed in hand-held balance scales, and mothers quiet crying children with cuts of sugarcane or towering lollipops of golden caramelized sugar pulled into flamboyant dragons...
...search for that elusive final vote. In fact, as jarring as the defeat was, it could end up strengthening the President: the personal energy he put into defeating the bill reinforced his image as a warrior against Congress's profligate pork-barrel ways, and it is likely to quiet fears that he is detached, out of touch and content to serve out the last 21 months of his presidency as a ceremonial caretaker...