Word: quelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three days last week, thousands of demonstrators roamed the streets of Khartoum, Sudan's capital, looting shops, burning gasoline stations and trashing automobiles. Police and troops used riot sticks, tear gas and, on occasion, gunfire to quell the disturbances. At least six people were killed, more than 2,000 arrested; several thousand people, mainly squatters and vagrants, were trucked out of the city. The violence erupted the day before Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri departed on a one-week visit to the U.S. that includes an April 1 meeting with President Reagan...
...hall, was stunned. Striding onto the podium, he demanded to know why the match had been called off. "You knew I wanted to continue," he shouted, shaking his fist. "They are trying to deprive me of my chance." With that, he stormed out of the auditorium. To quell the ensuing pandemonium, an unaccustomed diversion at Soviet press conferences, Campomanes called the players to a private one-hour 45-minute session, after which he announced that Karpov had accepted the decision and Kasparov would "abide by" it. But the young challenger was still furious. Outside the hall, he met with reporters...
...Administration failed to quell the uproar by announcing, the day after Stockman's testimony, a change in the rules under which it is offering $650 million in loan guarantees to banks that renew credit to debt-burdened farmers (the previous rules were so unattractive to rural bankers that they have accepted only $25 million in guarantees since the program began last September). Bipartisan groups of legislators, claiming that tens of thousands of farmers face bankruptcy before they can get their crops planted this spring, readied bills to force a vastly greater expansion of loan guarantees. One measure being drafted...
...such design innovations probably would not be enough to quell the aesthetic fears of Harvard Square residents. "There's a place for MacDonalds in society, but they don't have to be everywhere," Gifford said. "It would be a shame to have Harvard Square go the same way as other urban areas and becoming homogenized...
Public health officials sought to quell the growing panic. "The parents were concerned that their children would get some horrible, disfiguring disease," says Dr. Steven Strauss, a virologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Strauss went to nearby Pasadena to assure parents, teachers and union officials that their fears were unfounded. Although the herpes viruses can be dangerous for newborns (sometimes causing blindness, mental retardation or even death), they present a relatively minor risk to school-age children. In fact, by age 18, some 80% to 95% of Americans have been exposed to at least...