Word: quelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coordinated attempt to overthrow the government." With that piece of hyperbole by an information official, South Africa last week imposed one of the most draconian censorship policies in the non-Communist world. Only six months after it had decreed a harsh emergency rule in an effort to quell rising racial unrest, the government of State President P.W. Botha now sought to shroud the country's apartheid-torn society in a veil of secrecy and intimidation. Though the move was aimed principally at curtailing the domestic and foreign press, its overall intent was to cut off South Africa, its people...
Although Bok made a number of public appearances--including a debate with Secretary of Education William J. Bennett in October--and issued one report on CIA funding of research, neither action led to any tangible change in the way Harvard operates. They simply served to quell or dispell concern about University policy. The policy-making apparatus remains off-limits to those whom it affects...
Reagan thus moved to quell a controversy that has not only spawned criticism in Congress but also threatened his own credibility as president. A poll taken after Reagan's nationally televised speech last week on the arms shipments reported that only 14 percent of those surveyed thought he was essentially telling the truth when he said he was not trading weapons for American hostages...
Since the CRR's creation in the late 1960s, students have boycotted the body, saying that its jurisdiction is not clearly defined and that the University has called on it to quell activism...
...South Korean government of President Chun Doo Hwan blamed the North Koreans for the attack. It promptly increased already tight security, hoping to quell any notion that Seoul was an unsafe site for the games -- or indeed for the 1988 Olympics...