Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said he's counting on a quiet but sure comeback to carry him over...
Harvard police said they increased patrols in the Square but revelers began to quiet down by approximately 7 p.m. Saturday...
Gingrich, in a hurried round of phone calls, managed to silence most of his detractors. And even though he won't give up the job of Speaker, he will relinquish some of his power in order to quiet grumbling in the ranks. Having centralized authority to the point where he was regarded as the strongest Speaker in eight decades, Gingrich is now moving to return more policy-setting freedom to committee chairmen and has promised to consult more closely with members before taking controversial stands, as he did on Bosnia and the Mexican bailout...
...saying, "Ha ha ha! You' didn't get your work done, did you? Wel,l too bad! It's time to go! You're a night person. I hate night people. You should be asleep by now! Asleep! Now I'm going to lock you out of a warm, quiet place to study, so you can go back to your underheated cubicle and struggle with your noisy roommates who will do everything in their power to keep you from reading. Be gone...
...would be even easier for Harvard to remedy the late-night studying problem: keep Cabot or Lamont open later every night of the week. We don't need to check out books, or to search Hollis. We don't even need 24-hour service. We only need a quiet, heated, comfortable place to do what we are above all here to do: study. Keeping just one of Harvard's 90 libraries open until 3 a.m. is not an unreasonable request of a university so committed to learning...