Word: quell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Verdi indicated that the first-act quartet, "Quell'oltre," was to be sung unaccompanied, but it is regularly performed today with full orchestral accompaniment...
...told him that if he did not come to lead the coup, "we will have to kill you." Even as the uprising got under way, General Chang rushed off to see Magruder; for most of the first day, it was not certain whether Chang would lead the revolt or quell...
...continual threats to nationalize foreign oil companies, and foreign diplomats by her close relations with the Communists and Trotskyites who supported her election. She dismayed the island's 800,000 Roman Catholics by nationalizing their schools. Last week she had to call out the army before she could quell the latest wave of opposition...
Scooping up President Joseph Kasavubu himself, Mobutu charged down to Camp Hardy to quell the brewing revolt. What happened is wrapped in the inevitable confusion that surrounds every Congo crisis. One report had it that Mobutu was arrested temporarily by his own troops and that Lumumba was freed. But when it was all over, Patrice Lumumba still sat in jail. With his loyal supporters taking over more and more of the country, how long he would remain there was an open question...
...tell 30,000 workers at a union rally that the strikes must go on at any cost. A thousand rowdies broke from the crowd and rampaged through the streets, smashing the glass facade of the railway station, overturning police cars. For the first time, troops opened fire to quell the trouble; by the time they had driven the mob to the banks of the Meuse River, two strikers had been wounded by their bullets...