Word: quelling
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When school did reopen, all was peaceful, if not normal. Plain-clothesmen and community leaders walked the halls to quell fights, and the precautions prevented serious confrontations for the rest of the year...
Though he had indirectly been installed by student power. Park remained wary of its potential. On two occasions after his coup, Park reimposed martial law to quell demonstrations. Finally, in one of his emergency decrees in 1974, Park outlawed protest under pain of penalties ranging from one year's imprisonment to death. Ultimately, one of the disagreements that was to lead to Park's assassination was how much latitude the government should give to frustrated young dissidents...
...Massachusetts Hall, the Harvard Corporation embarked on a search for the right man to put the University back together again. Faced with a divided Faculty and an angry, unified student body, his effectiveness as a leader paralyzed the previous spring by his decision to call in the police to quell the student strike, Pusey buckled to demands for his resignation. As Corporation members looked for a new University leader, they realized that the days of a strong-arming, personal presidency had drawn to a close...
...used a small pistol he had bought three days before at a sporting goods store for $120. A sporting goods store is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned when they upheld the people's right to bear arms in a "well-regulated militia." We may not be able to quell human destructive impulses, but we can do much to thwart them. Lowenstein's memory would be honored if we renewed our resolve to bring weapons of murder under the rule...
...part of, and apart from, the people of New Hampshire. Carter is running for reelection, the authors would tell us, because of his deep psychological need to "measure up and win." The man from Georgia picked up his 49 per cent by carefully managing to control his emotions and quell the steamy contradictions which threaten at any moment to split his newly-parted scalp. Carter got to the White House through his belief in God and, a la Norman Vincent Peale, by the power of positive thinking...