Word: quell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showdown that might have turned it into a Southeast Asian Beirut, the President essayed a show of strength by reaching for the People Power that brought her to office. Still, in tacit disobedience to Aquino's stand against a negotiated end to hostilities, her military did not so much quell the coup as reconcile with those who had come closer than ever to unseating her. Even before the latest coup ended, plots were being hatched for the next stage of the rebellion, one the planners are certain will bring about Aquino's fall. As a government trooper who helped...
...main floor of Lamont Library has a new look this fall, bedecked in "Ultraviolet Plus" carpeting designed to quell the squeakiness of the cork tile floor...
...complete breakdown of authority," and six cutters headed for the island to evacuate panicked vacationers. But the restoration of order did not begin until Thursday with the arrival of 1,200 U.S. military police, federal marshals and FBI agents -- the first time Army troops have been used to quell a civil disturbance since the riots in Washington following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Most of the escaped prisoners have been recaptured. What little there is left to protect is being guarded. St. Croix may have been reduced to the primitive, but civilization has returned...
Iran has often charged Saudi Arabia with failing to protect the sacred sites of Islam. But when Iranian visitors staged riots during the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in 1987, Saudi security forces did not hesitate before attempting to quell the disturbances. More than 400 people, most of them Iranians, died during the violent clashes, leading to a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries the following year. Last week the Saudis demonstrated their resolve to punish disrupters of the hajj. In the largest public execution in recent years, swordsmen in Mecca publicly beheaded 16 Kuwaiti...
WASHINGTON--The House Republican leader said yesterday that the Barney Frank case was becoming "a stain upon the House of Representatives," as allies of the embattled Democrat tried to quell suggestions he was near resignation...