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Word: quietness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would hope that hockey's wild nature would stirs some alums and quiet undergrads to decisive action. Next year, Harvard fans, hang that terrier out to dry. Don't just shame B.U. fans on the ice. Try pummeling them with water balloons. Fight back, and scream your loudest negative cheers. Don't let your energy wane as your diploma yellows...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Bleak Seats at the Garden | 2/9/1993 | See Source »

...question of leaving a secure post in a prestigious office...for a highly uncertain future in a new office born in political controversy and saddled with the undistinguished record of [the Immigration and Naturalization Service]'s defeats," Ryan wrote in Quiet Neighbors, his 1984 book about Nazis living in America...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Tales of a Nazi-Hunting Litigator | 2/9/1993 | See Source »

...employees, by Ryan's own description in Quiet Neighbors, were "an eclectic group" that included trial lawyers and recent law school grads, historians, intelligence analysts and criminal investigators...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Tales of a Nazi-Hunting Litigator | 2/9/1993 | See Source »

...attorney left the government for good later that year, spending much of the next 18 months writing Quiet Neighbors...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Tales of a Nazi-Hunting Litigator | 2/9/1993 | See Source »

Okiki did not seem like the type to make trouble. Her friends describe her as a quiet girl who lived alone with her mother. But she roared on the day before the knife incident, when Kirk yelled at her for not paying attention. When Okiki left the classroom, she complained about how the teacher "got in my face" and warned, "I'm going to kill her." Other students apparently teased her, and then began betting on the life of their English teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Knife in the Book Bag | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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