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Word: quietness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after a quiet first half offensively, Junior Erin Maher nailed three straight treys in the final minutes of the contest...

Author: By Peggy L. Yeh, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: It Couldn't Have Been a Better Finish | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

...community on Bigelow Street made City Hall pay attention to our concerns over peace and quiet on the street and over parking issues," Irving said. "There will be much more compromise than City Hall originally planned...

Author: By Daniel M. Steinman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Neighbors Opposed To City Hall Renovation | 3/10/1992 | See Source »

...report prepared for the New York state assembly and quoted by the New York Daily News, 50% of the 1,900 students have some kind of puncture wound on their body at any given time. "T.J." has a "grieving room," where the students can seek peace and quiet and counseling when these things happen. The school maintains a burial fund to help families with the expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Childhood's End | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Their private life is quiet, full of music, books and dinners with friends. Gorbachev: "We love going for walks, to be in nature." Raisa: "He is exaggerating. He is always working. We have no time to be together. I hope all this will come." Gorbachev: "Nature is everything to us. We prefer to go for walks in winter, when there is a snowstorm. Everything disappears in a veil of snow. In these moments, you feel eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mikhail Gorbachev, Private Citizen | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

After a growing cadre of homeless people began to disrupt the quiet confines of the library, some librarians quit in protest. They said they were sick of being hassled by street people, and Kreimer in particular. So the governing board adopted a code of conduct that barred people with "offensive" bodily hygiene and banned staring at other patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Of His Own Sad Comedy: RICHARD KREIMER | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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