Word: quelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flooded the streets of Kaunas shouting "Freedom for Lithuania!" A young girl lay down in the street and spread her arms in the form of a cross. When the local police manhandled her, the rioting started. Hundreds counterattacked with fists, sticks and stones. When the police proved unable to quell the demonstrators, tough riot-control troops were called in. The angry young people reportedly killed a policeman, stoned a bookstore selling Communist literature and threw a fire bomb into the local Communist Party headquarters. A sitdown strike was staged by workers in a synthetics factory. Five hundred people were arrested...
...mission commanded from afar by an ambitious martinet, and revealed 1917 savagery in microcosm: fixed infantry moving against armed fortifications, prey to flairs and automatic weapons; military structures staffed by lawyers at the trenches and deadwood aristocrats at the drafting-table; calls to duty and service which can't quell the fears of men in torpor. Kubrick stuck so truly and unobtrusively to his debunking overview that the irony of his "brotherhood of man" finish goes overlooked. True, a fraulein warbling a love-song reduces French soldiers to tears. But we know that their captain only gives them a moment...
...when Marquette played South Carolina in a nationally-televised match-up of two of the nation's top teams. As tempers flared in the close game, a fist fight broke out between players and fans. Fortunately, someone had the intelligence to play the national anthem over the loudspeaker and quell the anger...
...might have been expected, when Dylan left the stage the audience threatened to do everything short of burning New York to the ground if he didn't come back for an encore. To quell the near riot situation Harrison plunged into "Something." Again, predictably, the audience was appeased. Harrison then plunged into "Bangla Desh" ending the concert and the album...
Though National Guardsmen have not been needed to quell their disorders, in the past three years U.S. high schools have become far more frequently troubled than college campuses ever were. Almost two-thirds of the nation's high schools?expensive new suburban complexes as well as the blackboard jungles of inner cities?have suffered disruptions. The incidents range from peaceful sit-ins protesting censorship of the student paper to savage riots between blacks and whites. Last week a fresh report from one of the worst battlefields, New York City, suggested that schools have themselves partly to blame...