Word: quietus
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...continues his sleuthing just like a good Agatha Christie heroine would; her graceful conniving reawakens police interest in the case. Mortimer even indulges in the requisite bad pun or two, when Mirry speaks of being 'dead on time' or when the ever-lustful Felix fantasizes dramatically about "making his 'quietus with a bare bodkin." The solution to the mystery is not especially convoluted and veteran mystery fans will likely guess the conclusion long before the end, but in no way will this diminish their pleasure in the consistently suspenseful final chapters...
...powers are in agreement, the U.N. performs. When they aren't, the U.N. is paralyzed." Security Council members, who ensure that no Secretary-General will pose a challenge to their individual authority, could invest the office with Bismarckian clout at any time. Short of that, they could put a quietus to the outmoded system of rotating the chief's job among "nonaligned" parts of the world...
...Quietus and Six Characters in Search of an Author--presented in the Marston Balch Arena Theater on the Tufts' Medford campus by the Tufts Drama Department. Call 381-3493. Ticket prices range from $3 on Tuesday, $5 on Wednesday and Thursday and $6 on Firday and Saturday. Thursday, Friday and Saturday...
...November elections, the scramble for the 1988 election will begin. Reagan has been too strong a figure in the past six years to be relegated soon to the status of a lame duck. But his time is receding. Perhaps the Reagan era is to be remembered simply as a quietus. Perhaps it is the illusion of a long summer celebration of the past, an illusion necessary before the future can begin...
...chest in the shark's horrific gullet, the victim screams bright gouts of blood as the great beast drags him down to a hideous quietus...