Word: quelling
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...Unless we can have that,' I told His Majesty, 'no man can quell the movement of protest that will sweep Spain...
...while the failure was a shock, it was not entirely unexpected. The actual news merely substantiated one of many persistent rumors which flooded W:all Street. Where originated all these wild tales, no man could tell. But no man could stop them. Cool brokers fought to quell them, only to catch the disease themselves. Denial seemed to lend authority. Some firms sent memorandums to all employes, warning them that to discuss another firm's financial position, even among themselves, was a breach that could not be tolerated. But as stocks kept falling, the stories flew faster. Weakness in certain issues...
...Dean coach was forced to use two pitchers, Smith and Simpson, to quell the Harvard batsmen, and these main-stays of the Dean pitching staff successfully turned back all Crimson efforts R. S. Ogden '31 was the only Harvard batter to hit consistently, getting two singles and a triple out of three times...
...account for this rapid expansion, Eatonists give credit to neither stock manipulations nor managerial ability. His special genius is in organization. Speaking in exact, ministerial tones, casting penetrating looks from his blue eyes, he wields great power when it comes to exhorting ancient industrial rivals to quell their jealousies and lock their arms in Christian fashion before fighting the fight for bigger profits...
...night the village fife & drum corps, after band practice, stopped in front of the Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this!" she screamed. Drawing a gun from her bosom she shot Postmaster Collier through the chest...