Word: quell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parents. In dozens of meetings in the living rooms of white parents, Mayor Kevin White urged peaceful compliance with the order. "It's a lousy, rotten law," he said. "We fought the thing. We lost. Now we have to go along with it." But White was unable to quell the outrage of white parents in South Boston. Isolated from the rest of the city by canals, railroads and express ways, Southie is a tightly knit, working-class Irish community that has produced many of the city's leading politicians. Among them: former House Speaker John W. McCormack...
...Californians are lightweights and are only concerned with flaunting their tanned bodies," or "If California can produce a Nixon, it's got to be a sick place." At first I would fight back and defend myself from further attack. But I soon realized that a defensive strategy would never quell the ignorance of such stereotyped ideas...
...gauge of national economic efficiency. When labor, materials and machines are managed effectively and productivity rises, more goods and services are turned out. Managers can raise wages without adding to production costs or boosting prices. Indeed, a sustained rise in productivity is essential if the U.S. is ever to quell inflation while expanding its economy fast enough to meet its needs for more job opportunities and improved housing, education and medical services...
Similarly, on Capitol Hill last week, Democratic and Republican leaders alike tried to quell rank-and-file congressional demands that Nixon step down and save the nation the trauma of impeachment and trial. Senate Democratic Whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia warned that a forced resignation would polarize the nation. "A significant portion of our citizens would feel that the President had been driven from office by his political enemies," he said. "The question of guilt or innocence would never be fully resolved." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield declared that "resignation is not the answer." House Speaker Carl Albert...
While the dramatic ending of repression continued to generate an air of political euphoria, Portugal's economic problems looked more serious than ever. The coalition government's vague promises of price stabilization and better working conditions did little to quell the increasing restlessness of Portugal's workers, who are the poorest paid in Western Europe and have to cope with an annual 30% inflation...