Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, Cheyenne River is being swept up in the quiet revolution--both a temperance movement and a traditional, spiritual revival--that is moving across many reservations. The four-year teepee-camp program is being funded by an $803,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its Healthy Nations program to reduce the damage caused by substance abuse among Native Americans. The foundation is sponsoring 12 other similar programs, including an Inupiat kayak expedition near Nome, Alaska, and an Apache multimedia campaign against alcohol and drugs in the White Mountains of Arizona...
...postponement" of that wedding a month before it was to take place.) "I think they complement each other," says Wentzel's father James, who was "a bit shocked" when his son started dating a President's daughter. "Our son's very outgoing and people-oriented, and Amy's quiet and smart." They plan to marry in September...
Kerri Strug was known as the quiet member of the U.S. gymnastics team, overshadowed by media darlings like five-time Olympic medal winner Shannon Miller and 14-year-old phenom Dominique Moceanu. Strug, 18, is the sensitive one, the worrier, the one most attuned to the feelings of her teammates. She remembers birthdays and sends notes. When Amanda Borden was going through physical problems, it was Strug who perked her up by sending cards. She's a team player...
...blast will fade into the background and life will return to normal. Memorials will be held, bodies will eventually float to the surface and relatives will bury their dead. For now, all that remains are the quiet whispers of the waves, lapping up against the shore...
...enough to cure anyone complaining of sanity. Sure, a barber shop quartet starring disease-carrying vermin rates high on anyone's cuteness scale, but after a funk number, or a gospel number, or the film's opening chorus...one just wants to crawl under a carpet and take a quiet...