Word: quells
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...very strong vision of what the institute should be like,” Dunn adds, “and she was very articulate in explaining that vision to everyone.” It was that same vision and sense of purpose that helped quell the fears of concerned alumni. “I was not in favor of the merger,” Diana E. Post ’67, former second vice president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association, says. “But the role that Drew Faust played was terrific. We were somewhat of an angry group...
...Kent, Ohio Four students are killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops called in to quell anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio...
...early 1990s, immigrant protests in Washington and New York City caused activists to argue that giving noncitizens the vote would help quell unrest. The idea fizzled everywhere but in Takoma Park and five smaller suburbs of Washington. For the 1993 election, noncitizens voted in Takoma Park at a 35% rate, better than the 30% for citizens. But the noncitizen figure plummeted over the following seven elections. City clerk Jessie Carpenter speculates that "early on, there was more interest because [voting] was new." She doesn't believe that resurgent concern over illegal immigrants has driven noncitizens from the polls...
...highest murder rate, per capita, in the nation. There were seven unrelated killings in one recent four-day stretch, including four on April 2. National Guard troops and state police have been patrolling city streets since last June. But there appears to be little law enforcement can do to quell the violence, much of which is attributed to turf battles among drug gangs...
...early 1940s had catered to an excited, militant public. In the 1950s, that action was replaced by the tranquility of the homestead amid fears of nuclear war. Only a miracle, such as the voice of God in “The Next Voice You Hear,” could quell those fears, Hoberman said. Hollywood also found itself on the defensive from a religious revival that was fueled by those same fears. The movie industry, however, viewed its films as breaking the monotony and repetitiveness of the lives of Americans, Hoberman said...