Word: quelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when whites hung a Negro dummy over the entrance. Governor Allan Shivers piously announced he would not use state police power "to shoot down or intimidate Texas citizens who are making orderly protest against [school desegregation.]" But in Clinton, Tenn., where Governor Frank Clement dispatched National Guardsmen to quell shouting, stone-throwing rioters, Negroes by week's end were still in mixed classrooms, and the guardsmen were beginning to leave. In western Kentucky armed mobs roamed through the mining towns of Sturgis and Clay, yelling for "nigger blood." But the mob quickly subsided in the face of tank-borne...
...until the mob had actually begun to destroy property. And according to the Tuscaloosa News, the Alabama Highway Patrol, when it finally arrived, had instructions not to touch any student. Had the University forseen the need for police, and had the police been willing to take strong action to quell the riot, there would have been a good chance of preventing such blatant flauting of authority...
Before leaving England, Eden sought to quell the domestic discontent with his leadership: "I want everyone to understand this," he told a Tory audience. "This country is not on its way down, and this government is not on its way out." But most of his hours were spent on preparing the diplomatic briefs he will present in Washington. His agenda, and the points of conflict...
Attempts to arouse the three by four College companions proved futile. The fire completely destroyed the interior of the building before a makeshift volunteer brigade, drawn from the resort's help and guests, could quell the flames. All were members of the A.D. Club...
Thus, Publisher Ferger hoped to quell the uproar over Enquirer management (TIME, Dec. 5) in which Ratliff had already been dumped as vice president and secretary of the company. But the firings,, only intensified the bitterness. At a meeting later in Cincinnati's Cox Theater, staffers sat in grim silence for 90 minutes while Ferger, 61, denied charges by Ratliff and Cronin that his own salary and bonus (1955 total: $104,699) and those of Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffield ($62,319) were excessive. Moreover, said Ferger, financial backers had urged him to insist on a ten-year contract; while...