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...brief flurry, featuring 25-foot shots from the side and corner by Lion high scorer Rudy Milkey, was able to chop the Crimson lead to six points in the opening minutes of the second half. To quell the Lion threat, Coach Floyd Wilson sent the varsity out of its 2-1-2 into a 1-3-1 zone, which is especially effective in coping with outside shooting from the sides...
...first day of registration for the public schools of Nashville, Tenn., and the city (pop. 185,000) had 90 policemen on special alert to quell any trouble that might break out. At some schools, it seemed at times as if the cops might be needed. Groups of white adults and teenagers wearing "Keep Our White Schools White" buttons passed out racist handbills, and a few people noisily heckled grey-haired School Superintendent William Bass as he toured possible trouble spots ("Why do you let niggers come to our white schools?") But beyond that, 13 little Negroes were allowed, more...
...grudging acknowledgment of the Imam's rule in the mountains. So when two years ago the Sultan's foreign oil drillers went to work near the northern border, the Imam's tribesmen attacked them. The Sultan struck back, sending a few hundred British-officered levies to quell the rebels. He advanced in a flying column of Land-rovers, and it was a walkover. The Imam retired to a remote village, his brother led to Saudi Arabia, and bedaggered sheiks by the hundreds kissed the Sultan's hand...
...rise in bus fares provoked rioting that killed 22 people. A fortnight ago, when President Ibanez moved to slash government expenses by reducing the subsidies that held down the price of sugar and tea, the government accompanied the order with special instructions to the police on how to quell any rioting that might follow: sound a bugle three times at two-minute intervals, then break up the mobs by any means necessary...
...nobody washes the ashtrays in Widener, and as a result one's cigarette is often coated with a resinous black tar. One's hands become gummy and sticky. One is forced to quell an impulse to flick an ash or two on the rubber tile beneath one's feet...