Word: quashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...languages as disciplines or their value for intensive analysis of the texts. It would be hoped that the lecturers and section men in such a course would have such a knowledge of the languages. A fairly inconclusive course of this type, rather than distorting the texts, would tend to quash some of the rabid and facile generalities beginning "The Greeks thought..." with which many Gen Ed courses abound...
...prosecutor, a hard-driving U.S. district attorney named B. Hayden Crawford. Readers who flooded the paper with letters supporting Bulloch last week could only assume, as the Tribune does, that some of the liquor runners and prostitutes who testified before the grand jury may have been more anxious to quash Bulloch than bootlegging...
...similar bill, which the Republicans managed to kill through their shenanigans over the Powell amendment. Thinking to make political capital by supporting the enforcement of integration through restriction of federal aid, the Republicans voted for the Powell amendment. Then using the amendment as their excuse, they proceeded to quash the bill...
...just to quash rumors that Juliana might abdicate, it was announced that the heir presumptive, Princess Beatrix, 18, would begin studies this term at Leiden University, where her mother won an honorary doctorate in literature and philosophy at 21. These matters settled, Juliana and Bernhard flew off to Corfu for a holiday with the Greek royal family. Their loyal subjects (who have been told very little of all that has gone on) were assured by an Amsterdam newspaper that for Juliana and Bernhard "this interlude in the land of classical harmony and joy of living" would mark "the equally harmonious...
...Shaw wanted the ABCs stretched to 40 letters on a one-sound, one-letter plan. Tart-tongued Lady Astor took one look at her old friend's idea and pronounced it ridiculous. The British Museum, one of Shaw's three institutional heirs, now wants the court to quash Shaw's bizarre bequest on the ground that a newfangled alphabet would not benefit the community. If the court concurs, the Museum, along with Ireland's National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, will start collecting royalties now pouring into Shaw's estate, plus...