Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death was so unlike his life. Quiet, private, and dignified. After his stroke last week, Richard Milhous Nixon slipped into a deep coma and then, late last Friday, completed his journey to the hereafter. For a man who was responsible for the most serious governmental disgrace in the history of this land, the reaction to his passing was surprisingly sympathetic...
...year Bosnian war that has resulted in 200,000 people dead or missing, those four U.S. bombs were a military pinprick. Politically, however, they shook the ground in all directions -- for a few days. As Bosnia lay relatively quiet, Washington took pride in its muscle flexing. "Every time we have been firm," said Clinton, "it has been a winner for the peace process." The Bosnian Serbs, who denounced the strikes as an intervention in support of the Muslims they are trying to crush, broke off contact with the U.N., charging that it had chosen sides...
...rest is more ordinary. Rigg is wonderful in quiet moments but awkward in striving for the unchained melodrama that Zoe Caldwell achieved in a 1982 revival. The balance of the cast, also from London, is workmanlike, save for Nuala Willis, whose keening songs redeem that most archaic of theatrical ploys, the chorus. The set, a vast wall of rusted metal panels that bang like thunder and tumble away at key moments, is effective but excessive, a tacit confession of shaky faith in the power of the play's words. That doubt is foolish. Medea is the greatest role ever written...
...walked around with a wealth of knowledge about what was going on in Africa and other parts of the world," Griffin says. "He was a more quiet person, not into rabble rousing speeches...
...nice, quiet ride. These cars look beautiful," said Frank Relling, a Boston resident and frequent subway rider. He also said the new trains make much less noise than their older counterparts...