Word: quell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fish for the Right. As usual, a big problem was the Reds. Communism had always plagued the C.I.O., infesting many of its unions, dominating some. Right-wingers like the autoworkers' Walter Reuther hollered for the radicals' heads, but Murray managed to quell any Red-hunt. Not that he was in sympathy with Communism. But he was afraid that an open attack on them would upset everything. As he said to a meeting of his sub-chieftains, Communist-dominated unions make up 20% of C.I.O. membership. The Communists are in all unions, he said, and they have...
...world has learned all too well, the time to quell rambunctious Fascists is before they have attained the military strengh to enable them to engulf peace loving nations. The opportunity for such action will be presented when the United Nations General Assembly meets on October 23. The Spanish problem is certain to be on the agenda. Perhaps nothing more than a dearth of fresh air will result from these deliberations; but if the U.N. passes up this chance to exert moral, economic, or military pressure upon the only remaining Fascist axis, it will have wasted its most convenient opportunity...
...Lafe Parks stuck to his school, hobbling out from the hospital on crutches to quell a mutiny of the dozen students, who wanted their money back. Persuasive Parks, a better talker than he had been a pilot, talked them...
Great Unknowns. Moore was not worried about relapses among patients treated with K-spiked penicillin. In all except syphilis cases, doses are so large that other types present quell bacteria; type K can be forgotten. If syphilis cases follow instructions (to report for regular checkups), any relapses will be nipped...
...underwear, men's suits and shirts and women's stockings were scarcer than ever before. Stores brave enough to advertise a small shipment of any of the precious items warned customers that they shopped at their own risk (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), occasionally had to call police to quell riots...