quiet

The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English;      71 words ......children synonyms : make quiet, silence, hush, shush; inf. shut up.   2. the children soon quieted synonyms : become quiet, grow silent, settle down; inf. shut up.   3. quiet the frightened horse synonyms : calm, calm down, soothe, tranquilize.   4...

REMEMBER NEXT ELECTION.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the Editor)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  March 2, 2001 ;     77 words ...As the Democrats who flocked around Clinton grow silent, you should not forget as North Carolina voters that our own Sen. John Edwards played a large part, along with some turncoat Republicans...

The storyteller.(Poem)

The Other Side;  March 1, 2003 ;     172 words ......brought something to share-- freshly baked bread, a jug of wine, a basket of apples. We eat and laugh and sing. Gradually we grow silent, watching the reflection of the rising moon on the water. The air is chilly after the sun goes down. Someone throws another...

Talk about it. .(Editorial)

Book;  July 1, 2003 ;     279 words ......literature of the sort the great Italian novelist had in mind: books that keep conversations going long after their contemporaries grow silent. In Where Are They Now?, which begins on page 34, you can find out what's been happening in the lives of more than a dozen...

A night under the big top provides one last glimpse of the Barnstormers'...

Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  September 21, 2005 ;     697 words ...The sounds of summer soon will grow silent. The roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint will vanish after next weekend. This critic has to give Cylo and the sideshow...

JUST THE WAY HE LIKES IT KENTUCKY'S TUBBY SMITH EMBRACES ALL THE WACKY...

Evansville Courier & Press;  June 17, 2003 ;     691 words ...Even the normally enraged callers on the University of Kentucky's massive radio talk show network began to grow silent in their criticism of coach Tubby Smith last winter. The top-ranked Wildcats' 26-game winning streak had finally shut them up...

Cooking for a cause: Family cookbook raises money for cancer awareness.

Times-News (Burlington, NC);  July 12, 2006 ;     595 words ......Hazel Thompson Self and her 11 siblings have a lot to talk about when they get together. But the sounds of constant chatter grow silent when cancer is mentioned. The disease has killed two of Self 's siblings; three others are cancer survivors. Believe it or...

COLUMN: Corruption in Iraq over WMD analogous to accounting scandals

University Wire;  August 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ......BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Baghdad's capitulation will signify the beginning of the end for the American War in Iraq. As the guns grow silent, however, the fall of Saddam's regime marks only the end of the beginning for the future politics of Iraq. Winning the war...

AIDS activists eager to answer the questions

The Boston Globe;  November 13, 1991 ;     700+ words ...When the telephones again grow silent and the media cease their relentless pursuit of information on an epidemic now in its second decade, Nicolas Parkhurst Carballeira...

Sport'sgreat voices grow silent, ending an era behindthe mike.(SPORTS)

The Washington Times;  June 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Bob Cohn, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Joe Buck was visiting his father, Jack, in the hospital recently when a doctor stopped to say hello. This would have been Jack Buck's 49th season broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals baseball games, except that he is gravely ill. During the last year, he has had

Tough Talk Tames Tough Crowd -- Even teen-agers grow silent after nurse's...

Yakima Herald-Republic;  November 19, 1998 ;     586 words ...Trauma nurse Tammy Pettis remembers the night she decided to do more than treat mangled young bodies. It was few years ago while working the emergency room at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. Several teen-age accident victims had been brought in when a mother arrived with a photograph and asked

SEATTLE'S DOCKS GROW SILENT FRIENDS SAY GOODBYE TO LABOR LEADER MARTIN...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 14, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Martin Jugum, a union leader who helped transform the Seattle waterfront, never claimed to be more than a mere ``working stiff But yesterday, he closed the port. For an hour, the docks were silent as union officers, employees and officials from the University of Washington climbed up on a flat-bed

DWR official is the authority on Lake Powell

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ...PAGE, Ariz. -- When Wayne Gustaveson speaks, rooms grow silent, eyes and ears turn and pencils and paper come out. "Good fishing is ... ," he starts out. From there he pinpoints, with the accuracy...

BULLPEN SLOGAN: CASE CLOSED

The Boston Globe;  July 12, 2003 ;     599 words ...DETROIT - As the scoreless innings and strikeouts mount, the detractors grow silent. That's a sound undoubtedly pleasing to the ears of the maligned Red Sox bullpen. "We have some quality guys who just haven't done...

Silent screens: single-screen theaters are fading away, but not at an...

Insight on the News;  February 11, 2002 ;     501 words ......another over the most powerful sound systems and best stadium seating, the old, downtown single-screen theaters increasingly grow silent. But there are groups and individuals who document and work to preserve these gems of 20th-century American culture. One is...