Word: quell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thank God that South Africa has laws to quell such disturbances as the one in Soweto...
Dean Rosovsky yesterday tried to quell the fears of the people of Cambridge that a proposed recombinant DNA laboratory would produce Frankenstein-like monsters, saying that the hazards are "entirely acceptable" to procede with construction...
...USING FORCE TO QUELL RIOTS. Despite the impression left by many news reports, we have handled the disturbances with a great deal of restraint and patience. In spite of the disturbances, we are maintaining open bridges for travel between Jordan and the West Bank; free traffic is moving throughout Israel and the West Bank. No capital punishment has been imposed. By and large, there has been free access for newsmen to report the disturbances, which is quite extraordinary if you consider that Israeli democracy is operating in a state...
...that new solutions, possibly government-imposed, would have to be found for the perennial problems of stagflation. But to most listeners, Trudeau's remarks seemed unnecessarily autocratic. He was accused by organized labor, business and the Tories of trying to move Canada toward a socialist dictatorial state. To quell the storm of protest, Trudeau was forced to make a public speech explaining that he did not mean to dismantle democracy but to improve its performance in Canada...
After the shots were fired, residents of the building called the city police to quell the commotion they heard downstairs...