Word: quells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madrid bull ring one afternoon last week, the torero was as clumsy as Sancho Panza, and the bull as listless as Rosinante. The aficionados booed, hissed, threw programs and cushions into the ring. Police tried in vain to quell the uproar. No one had seen anything like it in Spain for twelve years-since Franco came to power and banned bullring demonstrations, a beloved Spanish custom. Howled one spectator: "We want bulls for our money...
...Their bark is louder than their bite," one Yard cop said. "I heard the fire-crackers all the way over on Francis Avenue, near Somerville." He added "the proctors are the ones who should get in trouble for not trying to quell the riot, and not students...
...Some of them: In 1802 President Jefferson sent a naval expedition to war with the Barbary pirates; in 1900 President McKinley sent U.S. sailors, soldiers and marines into China to help quell the Boxer Rebellion; in 1912 President Taft established an American "protectorate" over Nicaragua with the marines in charge...
...gathered at the Ballhausplatz, seat of Austria's chancellory. Western soldiers were beaten up. Despite their small following (5% of the voters), the Communists found sympathizers among other workers who were bitter about the price boosts. Not even the Viennese police were notably enthusiastic in trying to quell the riots...
...Pacific, in the words of General MacArthur, a peaceful lake. The Pacific actually became a U.S. responsibility when Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 opened the Pandora's box of Japan; the U.S. began to recognize its responsibility when it took the Philippines from Spain in 1898, helped to quell the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, helped to settle the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. In World War II, it cost the U.S. a painful, bloody, island-to-island struggle to make the Pacific a peaceful lake. The U.S. never intends to be forced to fight that kind of war again...