Word: quashing
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...Kent 25: two weeks ago, a Federal district judge invalidated the Ohio grand jury report and ordered all available copies burned because it might prejudice jurors if the case came to trial. Ohio State Attorney General William J. Brown is appealing the case and opposing a move to quash the indictments which followed the decision, but it now seems possible that most of the Kent 25 will...
...meetings with Kissinger, the faculty member suggested, were designed to quash rumors that such a blanket rejection from Harvard was forthcoming...
Speaking informally in both interviews, Bok stressed that no one on the Corporation had approached him, and, as if to quash the persistent rumors that he was a leading candidate, argued quite convincingly that he neither wanted nor would be offered...
...White policemen find it hard to differentiate between riot language and horseplay language. Some black talk implies an imminent riot to whites, but to blacks it is a way of life. A rash decision by a patrolman based on language that he believes is offensive can precipitate instead of quash a riot." Leon Fisher, a black cop assigned to the juvenile bureau in St. Louis, is hopeful. "We are entering a new era," he says. "The image of this department is changing from the brutal sort of thing to a role of assistance. We are assisting people...
...message wasn't brought home strongly enough we can anticipate more provocation of the San Jose "This is what they really hate" style. The tactic is really an old one: tempt the opposition into some exceptionally sensational and yet fruitless act and then use it as an excuse to quash them. Hitler, for example, did it with the Reichstag fire...