Word: quell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solemnly chewing betel nut, he walked to Magsaysay, handed over his two pistols and a symbolic stack of 24 firearms, including BARs, carbines and old Japanese guns. In smooth tau-sog, Kamlon pledged the help of his band of 300 in Magsaysay's new campaign to quell the Moros, who are second only to the Communist Huks in defiance of Manila's rule. In English, Magsaysay praised Kamlon's guerrilla fight against the Japanese and promised him possible clemency, even offered to help Kamlon make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Then came the feast-mountains of eggs, crabs...
...minor water-fight began in the Yard and spread to the Square despite the efforts of University police to quell it. Over 200 undergraduates soon joined in on the fun before the familiar sirens were heard screaming down Mass. Avenue...
Other rioters in other days delighted in getting the President out of bed to quell their disturbances. Outbreaks usually began with the cry of "Heads Out"; when and why the original rallying call was replaced by "Rinehart", nobody seems to know...
Ready warned, however, that he will have patrolmen on hand to quell any disturbance, "should it get out of hand...
Some might suggest that this newspaper could quell such exploits by denying them publicity; but that cannot be our role. We have a duty to our readers to report the news. Moreover, despite our real sympathy for Lampy, we prefer not to pass judgement on the abductors of the Ibis while they remain obscurity. That they are clever and unscrupulous, that their conduct appears reprehensible, we know; but much we do not know. Is Thresky happy with them? Is their interest purely malicious do they have a genuine affection for him? These questions are not easily answered...