Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which had come to monopolize the grates. The homeless men would sometimes shout obscenities or threats at students walking down Holyoke, or at employees who were leaving work late in the evening. The troublemakers also scared away more peaceful homeless people who were merely looking for a quiet place to sleep...
...discomfort gripped me. Where, then, was I to live? "In the common room, I guess," was the answer I got from Scott, one of my new roommates. And so for ten days, I slept on a bed in the common room, with no furniture, no privacy and no quiet...
Bosnia's cease-fire now appears to be in effect everywhere except in the Sanski Most area of northwestern Bosnia. "U.N. officials say the town itself was quiet but fierce fighting could be heard to the east and north, indicating that the Muslim and Croat allies may be trying to capture Prijedor, about 20 miles to the north," reports Alexandra Stiglmayer from Sarajevo. "Prijedor is of major symbolic value to the Muslims because in 1992, Serbs brutally expelled the Muslim population from there, committing some of the worst massacres of the Bosnian war." The area is also of strategic value...
...statement included in the playbill, Davis explains that Generation X signifies an apocalypse of sorts to him. It is not one ushered in by four horsemen and plenty of fire, but rather a protracted apocalypse of mass resignation similar to what Thoreau described as lives led in quiet desperation...
...sports scene grew quiet after the World Cup as the threatened baseball strike became reality in late August and the remainder of the 1994 season was scuttled...