Word: allaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunisians and their fellow Moslems in Africa and the Near East remained a question. Axis propaganda had stimulated anti-Zionism throughout Islam, and had left Moslem nationalism aglow. General Giraud's firm stand last week was probably the wisest policy for the moment, but it did not allay the Moslem suspicion that the Allies have only one war aim-to chase out the Axis, insure a safe base for military operations and keep what they have won in battle...
...main points of Sir Arthur's Jamaican policy, intended to allay the ills of one of Britain's less successful and more uneasy colonies, were...
President Roosevelt freed Earl Browder, former General Secretary of the C.P., from Atlanta penitentiary, after he had served 14 months of his four-year sentence for passport fraud. His release, explained the President, "would have a tendency to promote national unity and allay any feelings which may exist" about Browder's having been persecuted for his political views. His Hitler-style mustache shaved off, thinner and greyer than when he started his term, the Kansas-born Communist leader hopped a train. Out of jail, out of a job, temporarily out of a cause, Browder went quietly home to Yonkers...
...fear. "Allay it! Tell the victim he will be all right, even if you know he is doomed. Turn his head so he won't see his mangled limbs...
...This week his journalistic enemy, El Impartial, called for a medical bulletin to allay 'public anxiety.' Don Tinto issued a political bulletin. He announced his temporary retirement on account of bronchitis and grippe, by law turned over his powers to Minister of the Interior Mendez...