Word: quells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Thus last week did the commotion over the Administration's budget for fiscal 1958 follow Dwight Eisenhower to vacationland. Actually, the President was already moving toward a dramatic new effort to quell the continuing controversy. By writing House Speaker Sam Rayburn a 2,454-word message on suggested budget cuts (see below), Eisenhower even placated Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, the man who had tossed the first budget match. Clearly still a member of the Administration's happy family, Humphrey too headed South and, as the President's house guest, he was greeted at Bush airport...
...West Indies in record numbers, the sunny lands of the Caribbean surged with progress, violence and tropical intrigue. In Jamaica, the democratic chieftains of the British Caribbean islands formed a new nation at a significant, heartening, little-noticed conference. In Cuba, a dictator struck out sharply to quell a running revolution that was not yet shaking his regime-but was not slowing down, either. Another dictator, in the Dominican Republic, was caught in a tightening web of evidence in the airplane kidnaping of a Manhattan scholar who criticized him. See THE HEMISPHERE...
...stage-something that is not quite clear-that the government almost ceased to function. The government split up, and one faction-maybe the bigger faction-called itself the government, and pushed the smaller faction and the Premier out. The new government invited the Soviet forces to come back and quell the disturbances. I am giving the facts without any comment. The Soviet forces thereupon came back and dealt with a heavy hand with the people who were rebelling against the new government. This so far as I know is the story. Details I do not know...