Word: quelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that man attained his highest freedom only when he understood the parameters of his behavior." But not to be outdone in the philosophical merry-go-round, another general tells Converse: "Goethe said it perhaps better when he insisted that the romance of politics is best used to numb and quell the fears of the uninformed. In his definitive Aus meinem Leben he states clearly that all governing classes must be imbued above all with discipline...
...quell the protests, the finance ministry has worked out an agreement with the Histadrut, the labor federation respon sible for 90% of Israel's public servants and 700,000 private-sector employees. Ev ery worker will get an additional $43 a month to help compensate for inflation, at least until April 1 , when the present set of wage agreements expires...
...Charles Percy of Illinois, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, voiced his disapproval, while Texas Republican John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hastily flew to the Middle East to study the eployment. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane met with House Republican leaders to try to quell their misgivings. He argued that the Marines were now adequately protected from attack. Not only are some 500 to 600 ferried from the airport to the ships every night, but those on shore now live in underground bunkers built of steel ship cargo containers...
While gunfire sounded, police and army troops in Jeeps and armored personnel carriers fanned out through the city to quell the "bread riot." The show of force finally brought an uneasy calm, but only after more than 50 demonstrators and bystanders were killed. Then, in a dramatic five-minute radio and television broadcast, Bourguiba announced that he was reversing the price hike. The cost of bread would drop immediately from 18? to 8?, he declared, while previous increases for such staples as pasta and flour would be reduced as well. "We are going back to where we were," he said...
...first of those steps was to quell unhappiness among the five often cantankerous political blocs that make up the L.D.P. As head of the party's fourth largest faction, Nakasone, 65, depends on the approval of fellow powerbrokers to stay on as both party leader and Prime Minister. Thus Nakasone devoted most of his energies last week to greeting delegation after delegation of supporters at his official residence in downtown Tokyo and venturing forth to the offices of L.D.P. leaders to pay his respects. Much of the time he was bargaining with his backers and appeasing his critics; throughout...