Word: quell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town, causing an unknown amount of damage. Although the government denies its forces are attacking civilians, crew members of a military jet that defected to southern Italy on Tuesday said they had been given orders to bomb civilian targets. President Sali Barisha has launched a major security operation to quell the unrest, which has seen the southern cities of Delvine, Vlora and Sarande spin out of government control. But although the crackdown has included an escalating campaign against local journalists -- the independent Koha Jone daily has had its offices partially burned and several reporter beaten -- insurgents are not backing down...
Emergency medical technicians were carrying the student on a stretcher as police arrived to quell the disturbance...
However, by election day all this was put aside. Jackson won with 56 percent of the popular vote. The American people were able to quell any doubts they had about his moral character in favor of his policies and his "newcomer to Washington" approach...
...tried to quell student concerns about possible disciplinary action by noting, "UHS carefully protects the privacy of medical information and complies with all requirements of confidentially imposed...
...beauty, but I'm not particularly obese--maybe 20 lbs. overweight, most of it centered in my center. I've sweated on a StairMaster, gorged on cabbage soup, crunched ab trainers until my sides ached. Still, nothing suppressed those late-night hunger pangs. Willpower alone couldn't quell my urge for chocolate. I'd feel awful after every falafel, only to return the next week for another...