Word: quashing
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...dogged fidelity to leadership that has become so fashionable in recent Administrations. Like most other virtues, loyalty in moderation is a noble trait. Of late, however, it has taken on exaggerated proportions that are inimical to a democratic society. As currently defined, team playing does more than merely quash originality. It vouch safes us a generation of faceless robots to whom individual responsibility is equated with treason. In the extreme analysis, Adolf Eichmann, by his own admission, was the ultimate team player...
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...obvious. Tomorrow's election will begin to show if it is going to happen; the momentum that seems to be developing, however, would indicate that only tremendously strong showing by David Sullivan and other tenant candidates like John St. George, coupled with poor performance by Wilkes and Abt would quash notions of a liberal shift to the center. If the 1981 campaign has proven anything. it is the fragility of the progressive consensus in Cambridge...
While trying to quash a revolt in the Philippines in 1904, American troops discovered that their .38-cal. revolvers were not very effective against the frenzied attacks of Moro tribesmen. The call went out for a handgun with "stopping power," and in 1911, the U.S. issued the Colt .45-cal. automatic to its men. Now, after 70 years of service, the Army plans to retire the legendary .45-as well as the .38-cal. revolver -and replace them both with a new 9-mm model...
...music, solved the difficulties of uniting his Black and white heritage and also avoided the faults inherent in using studio musicians. Jeffreys employs the talents of such varied strummers and hummers that one would expect the album either to compromise the individuality of the artists involved or to quash any originality on his own part. Not so. Instead, through members of two of the tightest bands in rock, Springsteen's keyboardists and the Rumour's rhythm section, he brings coherence to music from both sides of the Atlantic. He also employs guitarist Adrian Beiew and vocalist Nona Hendryx, fresh from...