Word: allaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hilltops around Pretoria, frantic rumors had swept the wretched native settlements that the white men were bent on a bloody sequel to the battle of Blood River, that they would go forth on Dingaan's day to slay black men, women & children. The government broadcast special messages to allay their fears...
...merely shaken by eating overripe watermelon and beer. In Johnson City, Tenn., State Alcohol Tax Agent Jess C. Ford, charged with drunken driving and possession of liquor, explained that it was all in the line of duty: he took a drink at a bootlegger's only to allay suspicion, carried the bottle with him to further the deception...
...will be transferred to Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. Withdrawal raises the uneasy question of South Korea's future; its U.S.-sponsored government faces a strong Communist regime which the Red army left behind when it withdrew last December from the area north of the 38th parallel. To allay South Korean jitters, the U.S. Army is leaving a large part of its equipment, including arms, ammunitions and transports, to the young South Korean army...
...Radcliffe American Youth for Democracy finally lost its charter yesterday. For the past few months, Radcliffe student officials have been working with the Dean's Office on some proposal that would keep membership in a political club secret--to allay the justified fears of the RAYD. Last week, the Dean's Office approved a Student Council recommendation that membership lists be destroyed at the end of each year, with only the names of club executives placed on the permanent record...
Taking a tip from Lenin's 1921 Russian shift to the New Economic Policy, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung was striving to ease the strain of revolution by talking of moderation. He hoped to allay the fears of capitalists and technicians, both Chinese and foreigners. New phrases which sounded like U.S. factory slogans urged workers to "study technique and raise production efficiency, cherish your implements and save raw materials." Said a Red soldier in Tsinan: "In the villages we have to eliminate feudalism and boost production, and in the cities we have to protect industry and commerce so that...