Word: quiets
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...emperor and empress of Japan today began a quiet pilgrimage to Nagasaki and Hiroshima to pray for the families and victims of the atomic bombings. Because former Emperor Hirohito's wartime role remains controversial, Emperor Akihito (the late emperor's son) timed the journey to miss the bombing's actual 50th anniversary, on August 6th. In a statement, he said, "I hope the world deepens its understanding ofnuclear weapons,and I pray for the repose of their victims and for peace, so that humanity will never experience such a disaster again." The muted tone of the royal journey mirrors Japanese...
Larson's interest in guns and gun control was aroused in the early 1980s by a series of teenage drive-by shootings that rocked the quiet neighborhood in Maryland where he lives with his wife, three young daughters and a goldfish named Joey...
Bass' great gift is his ability to set a mood. Whether typifying the "Quiet desperation" Thoreau described or expressing the peace that comes after doing something difficult and doing it well, the characters, natural environment, dialogue and narration work together to give the piece just the right flavor...
...Lake with her young sons Michael and Alex strapped into their car seats. They are still outraged at the ease with which she convinced the world that she was the grieving victim of a dark-skinned stranger. But the cries for the death penalty, if not entirely silenced, have quieted. And instead of remaining amazed that a 23-year-old woman, to all outward appearances a loving mother, could harbor such profound unhappiness or anger, the people of Union now marvel that their quiet town could have been the scene of so many tawdry and desperate entanglements...
With Congress out of town for the July 4 recess, President Clinton used the political quiet time to seek a way to avoid a potential electoral problem: the closing of McClellan Air Force Base, located in voter-rich California. An independent commission has recommended the money-saving shutdown, one of many scheduled military-base closings around the U.S. As White House aides and Pentagon officials searched for a more politically palatable alternative, sources reported progress toward a possible deal: work done at the base might be privatized, thus allowing the military to erase McClellan from its books but giving California...