Word: quelle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs to bake some." Convinced that a projected $96.4 billion federal deficit is unacceptable, Republicans stare back at the White House, hoping for a sign of presidential compromise. Gleefully eyeing the disarray within the G.O.P., the Democrats sit back and wait nervously for the Republicans to try to quell the rebellion in their ranks...
...rift in what had been a relatively smooth relationship between Israel and Egypt since Sadat's death hardly helped to quell anxieties as Israel prepared to relinquish the last part of the Sinai on April 25. Hints by Israel that it might attack P.L.O. strongholds in southern Lebanon were also deeply worrying. To urge restraint on all parties, Washington dispatched Special Envoy Philip Habib to the region once again...
...second term into what Kissinger describes as "a time of upheaval without precedent in this century." Because of Watergate, he adds, "a President fresh from the second largest electoral victory in our history was unseated in a revolution that his own actions had triggered and his conduct could not quell...
...Politics has become so much a part of my thinking and feeling that it is difficult to say where politics ends and my music begins." In 1968 the premiere of his oratorio The Raft of the Medusa had to be aborted when Hamburg police burst into the theater to quell a political demonstration; the work is dedicated to Che Guevara. Henze premiered his Sixth Symphony in Cuba in 1969, quoting a National Liberation Front song in the score...
Playing perhaps as well as he has for two years, the 33-year-old Khan used every bit of his accumulated court savvy to quell defending champion Desaulniers in the final, 4-15, 15-13, 15-14, 15-18, 15-11. But it wasn't easy...