Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprised that Norman had come back to the Masters, still more surprised that he had played so well in defeat. But I think that this is a testament to one of the best aspects of sports: its quiet exhortation for us to challenge ourselves...
...contrast, the reaction to the selection of Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan to speak at this June's Commencement has been rather quiet. None of my fellow seniors seems terribly upset by Greenspan's selection. No one denies that Greenspan is one of the most powerful people in the world today. (In a previous column, I compared his influence to that of International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch, well before Greenspan's selection was announced.) But no one seems terribly excited to hear Greenspan either. This is worrisome, given that the audience at the address-technically separate from...
Last November during Election day, you could almost hear the collective groan emanating from Washington. In one of the most quiet--yet closely watched--races from around the country, Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.), who gave a speech at the ARCO Forum last night, defeated Republican Mark Neumann by a hair, 51 to 49 percent...
...morally obligated to come out of the closet (when we can), to assert vocally our sexuality and to demand the equal rights and public recognition (through marriage and military service) that we are entitled to as citizens. We have the opportunity to live as quiet homosexuals only because more "noisy" queers have pushed the left farther left and created room for us in the center...
That may not be well enough to handle Duval, a quiet man given the nickname "Rock" who rolls into Augusta, Ga., having recently won a minor major, The Players Championship, against a tougher field than he'll face at Augusta. That victory punctuated an altogether astonishing 18-month run of golf. Late in the season of Tigermania, Duval won his first-ever PGA tournament. He won the next week too, and then the next. "We knew [that] once David got going, he'd win a bunch," Davis Love III said last week. "But we never expected a roll like this...