Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statement Thursday supporting the Dayton peace accord. "They pledged to help implement the agreement and have called for the establishment of 'local headquarters' in each town to oversee the implementation," says Niksic. The leaders of the Serb neighborhoods of Sarajevo and Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic have also been quiet over the last two days, a further sign, Niksic says, that "they may be getting used to the agreement." Meanwhile, General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander who disappeared from public view after threatening violence two weeks ago, is reportedly keeping a low profile at his headquarters in Banja...
Following proper airplane etiquette, I sat in the aisle seat, one away from a shlubby looking guy garbed in a Boston College sweatshirt whose other remarkable features were large, square glasses and a Yankees cap balanced on his head. He was quiet enough, I figured, for me to be able to spend the hour-long shuttle flight from New York reading some overdue Marx...
Ives' goodness is tested, as it inevitably must be, by tragedy. His son is randomly gunned down at Christmastime in 1967, and Ives spends years withdrawn and numb. Unlike Macon Leary, whose child suffers the same fate in Anne Tyler's Accidental Tourist, Ives eventually finds quiet hope not in the arms of a quixotic woman but, less fashionably, through his faith in God. A faith that turns his indifference into compassion rather than hate. Never didactic, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a spare, moving meditation on the spiritual life...
...quiet but powerfully-built. Harvard tailback has shredded countless opponents with his classic north-south rushing during the last two seasons, breaking many Harvard rushing records in the process...
...assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was laid to rest on Mount Herzl, burial ground of Israeli heroes. Grieving Israelis exhausted the country's supply of mourning candles and stood weeping as a two-minute siren sounded. p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat, who did not attend the funeral, later made a quiet 90-minute visit to Tel Aviv to offer condolences to Rabin's widow Leah...