Word: quell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police had the first work on their hands at around midnight last night, when they were forced to bar all entrances to the Old Campus to quell an uprising of 250 Yale freshmen brought on by the taunts of 20 Harvard students...
Such quiet restoration of the peace is typical of the University Police forces it almost always manages to quell annual springtime outbursts, or full-fledged football riots without wielding a club or swinging a fist. Instead, Lt. Matthew J. Toohy's 33-man force employs the subtler methods learned from many years of experience with College students...
Both chlorpromazine and reserpine have a wide variety of other uses. They quell much of the agitation and bickering of senile patients. General paresis (the result of long-standing syphilitic infection) has yielded spectacularly to treatment with reserpine. One patient at the District of Columbia's mammoth St. Elizabeths Hospital has provided a wry quantitative measure of the drug's effect. He had suffered for years from the hallucination that each night 1,000 women visited his room. After the calming effect of reserpine he is still hallucinated-but 99.9% improved: now he has visions of only...
...same time, economic complaints have cropped up that the Republicans have not been able to quell. Unemployment, for example, is up to 250,000. But most important, the Democrats have succeeded in convincing the New York City voters that the upstate-dominated Republican legislature is cheating the city out of its fair share of social-welfare grants. In short, the Republican formula is weak this year. If enough Catholic voters forget that Harriman was part of the "twenty years of treason," and remember that he will increase their school and compensation grants, they may not take their usual walk from...
...Philippines found themselves in a dispute over internal "liberation" movements. Since Thailand now finds herself threatened by the same kind of "inside job" as Indo-China was, she wanted guarantees against subversion. The Philippines wished to avoid any definition that would require her to help a colonial power quell a genuine nationalist movement. The U.S. wanted to protect the southern tier of Asian states-Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The Philippines wanted to defend only treaty signers and challenged the right of France to sign for the three independent states of Indo-China...