Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three main opposition political parties and its handful of independent labor unions. Roving Sandinista gangs known as turbas (mobs) have broken up meetings and stoned the houses of leaders. The Sandinistas claim no direct responsibility, and in fact there is evidence that the government has moved to quiet the turbas. Still, the net result has been to leave most of the country's remaining opposition spokesmen cowed, or at least in a state of uneasy truce with the government and its overwhelming monopoly force...
...mentor, the commanding Francis Cardinal Spellman, and quickly adopted a more conciliatory managerial style, in keeping with the decentralizing principles of Vatican II. An anti-Communist who served as military vicar to the U.S. armed services' 2 million Roman Catholics, the Cardinal last year abandoned his usual quiet role among fellow prelates to oppose the majority of American bishops in their call for nuclear disarmament. Cooke used the occasion of his approaching death as a means of pastoral teaching, announcing that his condition was terminal shortly after he learned the news in August. In an open letter completed only...
...debate of industrial policy probably will resort to more caricature and people will see it as the age-old debate between free market and central planning. That will be fairly short-lived. After the election, regardless of who wins. I hope that that element of industrial policy will become quiet for a while, and the more interesting portion of the debate will continue...
...Dennis J. Kearney '72 will vote at Bradley School in East Boston at 9 a.m. and then will spend "a quiet day with his family." Kearney spokesman Lisa DcAmelio said yesterday. Spokesman Gregg Wilson said yesterday that the Kearney campaign is counting on votes in Wards One through Three--East Boston, Charlestown, and the North End--and will keep track of voters at the polls as they sign...
Saudi diplomats in Washington and other capitals have usually been self-effacing and reserved, preferring to make their case in quiet, behind-the-scenes contacts. Not Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, 34, who played an instrumental role in arranging the cease-fire in Lebanon and who has just been appointed as Saudi Arabia's new Ambassador to the U.S. He likes to be in the thick of the action...