Word: quell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Command Decision. In Central Valley, Calif., when a fire alarm interrupted the crowning of the queen at the annual Firemen's Ball, Chief Earl Stevens dispatched all his men to quell the blaze, stayed on himself to complete the coronation...
Once he had roared like an angry lion against delay and the deluded talkers of Munich. But last week an older Winston Churchill did nothing to quell Labor's feet-dragging rebels or to give urgency to his Foreign Secretary's plea for action. True, he sturdily supported German rearmament ("It astonished me that anyone can imagine the mighty, buoyant German race being relegated to a kind of no man's land in Europe and a sort of leper status at the mercy, and remaining at the mercy, of Soviet invasion"), but he weakened the case...
...plan for a 50-year treaty "open to all European states without regard to their social systems," and pledging mutual assistance in case of attack "in Europe." Both Germanys could belong. Occupation forces would be withdrawn from Germany except for "limited contingents,"-but with authority to return to quell any threat to internal security, e.g., the June 17 uprising...
...quell the Japanese resistance man by man and conquer the country yard by yard might well require the loss of a million American lives and half that number of British," Churchill had reckoned. "Now all this nightmare picture had vanished. In its place was the vision-fair and bright indeed it seemed-of the end of the whole war in one or two violent shocks." Churchill thought this "almost supernatural weapon" would induce the Pacific enemy to surrender and thus save many Japanese lives as well...
...Board based its classification of Randall as a workman upon the nature of his duties. It defined one of them as "to quell disturbances, which requires muscular brawn...