Word: quell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protean efforts to quell inflation without raising taxes, Lyndon Johnson is getting no help at all from the Congress his party dominates. Indeed, Capitol Hill's prodigal mood can only intensify the pressure on an already overstrained economy...
...soon will launch military operations there to regain control. Ky blamed Da Nang's mayor, a 37-year-old doctor, who has been in office since January. Warned Ky: "Either Da Nang's mayor is shot or the government will fall." Whether so dire a threat would quell the unrest, or simply fan it, a nervous Saigon-and an anxious Washington-waited...
...demonstrations in Hue and took solace from the two-day general strike that cut down traffic and slowed unloading at Danang's busy port. That sent Premier Ky to the nationwide radio at week's end with a warning that the government would "move strongly" to quell agitation. But Ky moderated the threat with a promise that South Viet Nam would be given a new constitution by November at the latest, and other officials hinted that national elections of a civilian government might be held late this year-nearly a year ahead of Ky's earlier schedule...
...would be ruthlessly crushed. Ky is a man of his word: last week, in fulfillment of his pledge to shoot war profiteers, Chinese Merchant Ta Vinh was executed at dawn by a firing squad. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge also met with Thich Tri Quang to caution moderation. To quell the demonstrations in the north, Ky sent the ousted General Thi back to I Corps to calm and reassure his own disappointed supporters, who included many of the soldiers in the two divisions he commanded there. It was a risky move: in his speeches Thi was obviously torn between...
...charge hell with a bucket of water." Once, accompanied by a lone Ranger, he actually did charge a barracks containing 20 armed and rioting U.S. soldiers, and forced them to "put up them guns!" Another time, when a citizens' committee called for a company of Rangers to quell a mob, Captain McDonald arrived alone. When the citizens protested that only one Ranger had been sent, he replied: "Well, you ain't got but one mob, have...