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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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While university professors and college students might be expected to tolerate Frank's affair, when he returned to his district it was a largely working-class crowd that cheered him at a parade through Fall River soon after the story broke. Perhaps even in quiet, conservative Fall River, the world isn't as neat as it used to be. One must learn to forgive the sinner while hating the sin -- or risk shutting out the daughter who had the abortion, the son with AIDS, the nephew trapped by drugs. Even the most conservative parts of the Fourth District may decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Skeleton in Barney's Closet | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

Except for the barking of stray dogs, the Inlet is a quiet neighborhood, not because of its tranquillity but because of its gaps -- vacant lots where houses were razed and replaced by fields of pink clover, Queen Anne's lace and beer-bottle shards. Here and there are anachronistic gestures to elegance -- carved laurels in a window casement, a Victorian turret, delicate porch columns -- that lend the scene the haunted air of a horror-movie set. At times the Inlet seems just a bad joke. Standing over one bunker-style housing & project is a billboard touting one of developer Donald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

Gicewicz is a quiet leader. His position--middle guard--is one of the most anonymous on a football team...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Hungry for One More Season on the Football Field | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

Gicewicz is a quiet leader. His position--middle guard--is one of the most anonymous on a football team...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Hungry for One More Season on the Football Field | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Gicewicz is a quiet leader. His position--middle guard--is one of the most anonymous on a football team...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Hungry for One More Season on the Football Field | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

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