Word: quell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elders & Bearskins. Originally separate regiments, the Argylls and Sutherland Highlanders were both formed in the late 1700s, when the Crown was anxious to quell the defiant mood of Scotland that had resulted in the Jacobite rebellion. Their language and manner, from the beginning, made them a strange breed among Britain's tough foot soldiers. On their first foreign tour, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Sutherland regiment showed up with three elders of the kirk in their ranks, piously sent part of their pay home to the missionary society...
...Sepoy Rebellion in 1858. It scattered Nazi Germany's Afrika Korps in the Battle of El Alamein during World War II and earned the regiment the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military honor, for service during the Korean War. On its last assignment, helping to quell last year's Aden rebellion, the regiment displayed its typical bravado, marching to the strains of bagpipe music into the middle of the Arab-terrorized Crater district under the colorful command of Captain Colin ("Mad Mitch") Mitchell...
...continued to twist and turn my knee as I looked at him courageously, wringing my hands to quell the pain. Sullenly he stopped and continued to fill out my form. When he was done, he turned to me and said, "Both the Army and you will be happy to know that you are unqualified for military service because of your knee...
...eight hours that it took to quell the capital's most violent riot, which spread from party headquarters throughout downtown, the collegiate ranks were bolstered by thousands of high school students and some adults-a sign that the calcified Gomulka regime is scarcely more popular off campus than on. As they sacked a movie theater and moved in little knots through Warsaw's side streets, the students began shouting: "Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia!" and "All Poland is waiting for Dubček."-Czechoslovakia's new Communist Party chief...
...troops, the Marines 180,000. Only about 125,000 of the total are combat ready and capable of being deployed within or without the country on short notices for crisis duty. Key units include two brigades (8,500 men) of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division (which helped quell the Detroit riots last summer) stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., and three outfits committed to NATO exigencies: the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions (14,500 men each) at Fort Hood, Texas, and the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division, 14,300 strong at Fort Carson, Colo...