Word: quiets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Dining halls slept. Lamont was locked. Traffic slowed, sometimes stood still. It was Thanksgiving. In quiet corners across campus, students cultured lab cells and honed hockey shots. A handful of students tried to save the cost of pricey airfares and catch up on neglected work, and got a glimpse of Harvard, moving at a snail’s pace. “Even just walking down Mass. Ave., there were hardly any cars,” said Katharine M. Chute ’11. “It was pretty quiet, and it was kind of nice...
...Honestly, I think we just played better [in the second half],” Hallion said. “In the beginning, we battled a little bit of sluggishness. There wasn’t a big crowd—it was kind of quiet. Once we picked up our own intensity, we just played better...
...beer and local wine and loitering in front of Movement Records - a punk-music shop that has become a nexus for local youths. It is also home to Onie, one of Jakarta's self-proclaimed original street punks, who both works and sleeps on the premises. "It is very quiet at night," Onie says. "The shops are closed, so society is O.K. with us being here. My friends can come at night and argue, laugh and fight for as long as they want...
Harvard Yard was quiet last night, but a tight circle of people outside Matthews Hall observed a moment of more profound silence...
...same time, however, to hedge its bets, India has been making quiet overtures to the pro-democracy opposition. When former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, after returning to Pakistan, escaped a deadly attack on her convoy in Karachi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the ruling Congress Party's leader, Sonia Gandhi, personally called Bhutto to express concern. Yet publicly, India's stance has been reticent. Maintaining a silence while Washington waves sticks and carrots at its wayward prot?g? serves India's purpose just as well. Last week's visit to Pakistan by Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was followed with...