Word: quelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cried one citizen, and with that a riot erupted. The angry crowd dragged two board members from the stage, beat them with chairs and anything else handy. With the auditorium a maelstrom of flying bodies, county police in 24 prowl cars moaned up to the school to quell the disturbance...
Discontent against Hayes-Bickford's new 15 cent minmum led last night to a melee that took 15 policemen and numerous firemen to quell. Three students who identified themselves as "bards" refused to pay the charge and set up a table on the sidewalk...
Local college and religious officials also moved to quell charges of anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism, and Fascism that had been levelled against the Yale rioters by various elements of the national press...
Such ingenuous twists quell the qualms of oldsters, but younger German audiences laugh uproariously at blended-in newsreel shots showing goose-stepping Brownshirts heiling their Führer...
...make martyrs of them. Outside the courthouse, where thousands of Bwana Tom's followers had demonstrated only a few days before, one native forlornly waved a placard saying EIGHT MILLION AFRICANS ON TRIAL, for the benefit of the small, halfhearted crowd-and the Nairobi police phlegmatically waited to quell the riot that never came...