Word: quell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power. Indeed, after the Jaruzelski government resorted to force to quell street demonstrations last May, underground leaders urged their followers not to disrupt the Pope's visit with protests. Even Bujak has conceded that "our fight will go on for a much longer time-years, not months or weeks...
...other members of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces have been asked to design the free world's nuclear deterrent for the rest of this century. Helms' entire adult life has been given to studying and acting against forces that would quell freedom. The problem probably cannot be solved for more than a few years at a time, a fact that Helms accepts but many Americans find hard to digest...
They were out to quell the disturbance, but ended up attacking people with a surprising amount of indiscretion. Journalists and ordinary residents were gassed along with those who were breaking into stores. One storekeeper was mauled by police dogs, and another was badly beaten with billyclubs. A 17-year-old named Alonso Singleton was shot eight times while trying to break into a food warehouse (police say he had a gun.) The officer who killed Singleton has stacked up 24 citizens' complaints filed against him in the last 10 years. There may be more, when someone asks why he reloaded...
...giant food-scare spreads through Harvard, as the sudden deaths of seven freshman are blamed on tainted Halibut Cheese Casserole in the Union. Seeking to quell the crisis, University officials announce the introduction of a new "Halibut-lock" on portions of the dish, and offer tuition discounts to those who brave it. But some officials privately speculate that the real culprits are Bulgarian terrorists. Asked about the crisis, Presidential candidate John Glenn, on a campaign swing through Cambridge, calls for "research and development, of course...
...between the A.E.C. and the growing nuclear power industry. Necessary safeguards were often dismissed because of the additional cost to contractors, and a tremendous amount of attention was played to solving the problem of liability in the case of an accident at a nuclear plant, in order to quell the industry's growing concern about potential lawsuits, the A.E.C. pushed Congress to pass the historic Price-Anderson Act of 1957, which absolved the manufacturers and operators of nuclear power plants from liability and all but eliminated the right of those injured in a nuclear accident to sue for damages...