Word: allay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that would impose up to five years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine on anyone who crosses state lines with the object of stirring up trouble zipped through the House by a 347-to-70 vote. "This bill," protested New York's Emanuel Celler, "will not allay but will rather arouse more deeply the Negro's anger and frustration...
...committee favored dealing with graduate education by individual departments. Though it voted to deal with undergraduate education interdepartmentally, the committee added that its proposals would take the form of suggestions. This proviso was apparently intended to allay Faculty fears that the teaching fellows might try to dictate the form and content of undergraduate courses...
Reagan is probably willing to let it go at that again, just so the Regents approve, as they are sure to do, enough of an investigation to honor his campaign promise. He insists that he promised an investigation only to allay Californians' anxiety about the University. He would also like to get some of the Democratic appointees off the Board of Regents, but the law prevents him from doing that for some time...
...million. It has been christened Wozchod Handelsbank, or Sunrise Commercial Bank; Chairman Albert Nikolaevich Belishchenko, 36, a career banker who was formerly vice-director of Moscow's Gosbank, says the name refers to the spaceships that the Russians launched in 1964 and 1965. Belishchenko takes pains to allay Swiss fears that Moscow will use the bank to dump gold and otherwise disrupt the tiny nation's financial ties to other Western countries. "The Soviet government wants to trade with all countries willing to trade with it," says he. "We are here to help finance this trade...
...Lyndon Johnson, too, who was personally responsible for the most controversial item in the communique-Point 29-pledging an allied troop withdrawal six months after "the other side" withdrew its forces, infiltration was ended and the level of violence had subsided. The point was designed to allay fears in other capitals that the U.S. has no intention of pulling out of Southeast Asia. Even more, it was designed to answer those statesmen-most notably France's Charles de Gaulle and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko-who have urged the U.S. to offer a specific timetable for withdrawal...