Word: simmered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...comforted, the way you do around a certain kind of bossy, sexless power mom. The show approximated family life exactly: it was mostly good-natured and often boring and centered on the most basic transactions of daily existence - getting everybody dressed and fed, cleaning up, keeping quarrels to a simmer, not a boil. Now and then - in moments that genuinely did seem unscripted - Kate would wilt, leaning against the kitchen counter with a cup of coffee and seeming, for the twinkling of an eye, as though she were allowing herself to absorb the shock of it all. But then...
...Despite the less heated tone of the meeting, local concerns about Harvard’s vacant property holdings in Allston continued to simmer...
...ally in dealing with many of its biggest noneconomic issues: how to achieve long-lasting stability in Iraq, how to convince Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions, and even how to save Afghanistan. And if the E.U. is serious about defusing some of the conflicts that still simmer in the Caucasus, like the ones in Trans-Dniestria or Nagorno-Karabakh, it could do with Turkey's help...
...thought came jerks and pants from the white folks. Usually I’d feel them break after I’d passed, but a few times they’d bubble up in front of me: heads turning round to scowl and simmer. The rustling of these early birds soon joined up with the clamoring hiss behind us—a legion of cicadas, banging away on their timbals as they crept at our heels.It’s a good thing I was getting numb. Because the din finally got so bad that Reverend Lewis stopped talking...
...that Iraq will become a new Lebanon, a multisectarian country whose diversity is both its blessing and its curse. Will Iraq's people be able to put the savagery of the past behind them and truly reconcile, or will they, like the Lebanese, keep their suspicions on a low simmer that boils over every once in a while, stoked by regional interests...