Word: quash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watts is still a far from pleasant place to live, but Negroes have begun to organize work projects and civic activities that give it a semblance of community life. Last week members of some of the more militant black organizations united with N.A.A.C.P. members to quash a riot in Watts before it had a chance to begin. "If Los Angeles does get through the summer," says Mayor Sam Yorty, "it will be primarily because of the hard personal efforts of the majority of Negroes themselves...
...seems clear that these gestures by themselves will not still Southern zeal to quash the guidelines. If the Administration wants them kept, it will have to fight a determined battle. If desegregation is to proceed at all, it must do so. President Johnson has spoken out forcefully against the Republican block grant proposal; he should make it clear that he supports the guidelines, and he should do everything in his power to preserve them...
DEAN (turning to his textbook): The dictionary calls it "confused, unintelligible language: gibberish, a dialect regarded as barbarous or outlandish." But we at Instant call it the Expert's Ultimate Weapon. In 1967, it will hypnotize friends, quash enemies and intimidate whole nations. Follow...
Fighting back, Diefenbaker and his forces decided to quash the rebellion by voting Camp out of office at this year's party conference. The Diefenbaker candidate for Camp's job was Toronto Lawyer Arthur Maloney, 46. But Diefenbaker's fiery oratory, which once had propelled the party to the greatest election margin in Canadian history, this time failed to rally the delegates to his cause. As the Toronto Globe and Mail put it, "The audience didn't just sit on their hands; they checked them at the door...
...Communist aggression, went the theory, and the rest would not matter. But it has been the rest-in Viet Nam and elsewhere-that has caused much of the trouble in the past decade. Nuclear weapons not only failed to deter mischief, but could not, in sanity, be used to quash it. Moved partly by Nikita Khrushchev's famous "wars of national liberation" speech, in which he indicated that Russia regarded guerrilla warfare as the Communist strategy of the future, the Kennedy Administration abandoned massive retaliation in favor of a strategy of flexible response. This concept dictated that...