Word: quelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrived in the French Pacific territory last week to be welcomed by an honor guard of French soldiers. But the ceremonial greeting was deceptive. Heavily armed French troops stood guard and were positioned in the nearby bush. Commissioner Edgard Pisani, 66, had been sent from Paris to try to quell the violence that by week's end had left twelve people dead and about a dozen others injured in the island territory 750 miles east of Australia, which was annexed by France in 1853. Pisani's mission is also to find a solution within two months that...
...year. The failure rate rose sharply during the four years following the 1929 stock-market crash, when a total of 9,000 banks closed. With the entire financial system in shambles, President Franklin Roosevelt in March 1933 closed all the nation's banks for four days to quell the panic. Institutions declared sound by federal and state officials were reopened, and Congress began writing new banking laws. The resulting Glass-Steagall Act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to guarantee the safety of savers' money and banned banks from conducting the lucrative but risky business of underwriting securities...
Rajiv faces two daunting tasks: to quell the sectarian violence that surfaced most recently when Hindus turned upon Sikhs following Indira Gandhi's assassination, and to restore the integrity of his government, which is riddled with corruption. "Mr. Clean," as Rajiv is known by many supporters, did not waver. Said he: "No quarter will be given to the corrupt, the lazy or the inefficient...
...extremist Sikhs themselves: It was no secret that any Sikh who spoke out publicly against Bhindranwale and his unreasonable demands would inevitably placed on his hit list. Such is the phenomenon of extremist factions within a community; the violence and antagonism are directed towards the community itself to quell dissent from within...
...untested new leader tries to quell the flames of hatred