Word: quelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand, Chamlong's forces for the first time united students, workers and members of the greatly expanded middle class, proving that newly affluent Thais will no longer put up with military rule as meekly as they have for many decades. And the departure of Suchinda will do little to quell the demands for an investigation into the military's actions. The King, who has no legal power over political matters but is revered by all Thais, may have to step in again in the future to extend his steadying royal hand. (See related story on page...
...police were unprepared to quell the ghetto's rage...
...Friday, however, Bush finally conferred with black leaders at the White House, and when he addressed the nation on TV that night -- his eighth pronouncement in roughly 48 hours -- he at last got the message about right. He announced steps to quell the already fading rioting, including federalization of National Guard units in the area. And he again unequivocally condemned the disturbances, flatly calling some of the rioters' acts "murder...
ORIGINALLY APPOINTED by former President Derek C. Bok as a conservative to quell the liberal Critical Legal Studies scholars, Clark is too partisan to stop the faculty infighting at the Law School...
...first distinguished himself as a mediator in 1967, when looting and burning broke out in the ghettos of Detroit. Vance had just resigned as Deputy Secretary of Defense because of a ruptured disk. President Lyndon B. Johnson asked him to take command of the troops he was sending to quell the riots. Vance's back trouble was so incapacitating that he had to take his wife Gay with him to tie his shoelaces. His management of that crisis became a model for leaders in other cities during those long hot summers...