Word: quelling
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Repeated efforts to quell Comrade Kun only fired him to a more spectacular flaying of the judges. In the press box reporters from Vienna's numerous radical and communist papers grinned as they dashed off reams of lurid copy. They roared with mirth when Kun shouted at the Prosecutor, "Don't try to bully me, or I'll bully...
...Scene of bloodshed and destruction during the martial law days of 1914, when President Wilson sent six troops of cavalry to quell the warfare between miners and mine guards...
Despatches indicated that the Government of President Hernando Siles was proceeding to quell the disorders by rushing picked troops to oppose the scantily armed Incas...
Meanwhile the police continued so outnumbered that those who sought to charge or quell the crowds, were mostly seized, pummeled, stripped of their uniforms and turned loose in the indignity of underwear. The garrison at Vienna refused to fire upon "our brothers." When fire engines clanged forth to the Justiz-Palast irate workers stormed and smashed the apparatus. Meanwhile labor organizations had declared a general strike, thus paralyzing communication. Telegraphs and telephones were silent. Trains, Danube steamers and even the German-owned air service were stopped. For 48 hours news from Vienna came only in the form of smuggled rumors...
...Hindu women returning from a religious ceremony made music before the door of a Mohammedan mosque in Indore, some 2,000 Mohammedans avenged this infraction of the Koran last week by rioting, killing five of the Hindu women, and stubbornly resisting for some time a cavalry troop sent to quell them by the Maharaja of Indore...