He also reports that teachers anecdotally found that students who chewed gum required fewer breaks, paid better attention and stayed quiet longer than those who did not.

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On NBC, anchor Brian Williams stayed quiet for what felt like several minutes, allowing the cameras to pan the massive crowds in Chicago's Grant Park, capturing their unalloyed joy.

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Notre Dame officials have said they also learned of the hoax in December, but they stayed quiet until after it was revealed in a report on sports news website deadspin.com.

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But the ECB stayed quiet and did not bark.

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Sporadic violence has broken out in several cities around England, although London stayed largely quiet overnight.

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He stayed there until everything went quiet, and he believed it must be late at night.

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Roads were reported to be relatively quiet as motorists stayed at home.

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Sometimes I swam out to the middle and stayed there, treading water, listening to the quiet that surrounded me, a hiatus in the air, like a held breath.

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In 1951 Graham Greene stayed for the first time, while writing "The Quiet American" and acting as a correspondent for Paris Match.

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