Word: quietus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggling with a cantankerous but unorganized mass of natives whose language, religion, law and customs were totally different from their own. This lively historical novel deals with the mid-century years when Oliver Cromwell, having beheaded King Charles I. marched into Ireland with his vengeful army to put a quietus to the Irish question...
...occasion to make the Danes melancholy, for the dramatic climax would, no doubt, be Marilyn as Ophelia frisking about the lily pads clad in a bikini for a real razzle-dazzle death scene. At this point, the profit-sharing prince would no doubt be moved to make his quietus with a bare bodkin...
...afternoon wore on, quietus got an "o," badinage became batonage, and a youngster blurted g-y-r-o-c . . . for gyroscopic and with a despairing cry ("I missed it!") sat down. By 5 p.m. only three contestants were left. Quincunx,'' shot the pronouncer at Naomi Klein of the Yeshiva of Flatbush school (Brooklyn, N.Y.)-and then there were only...
America's No. i battle right now is to turn back the tide of Soyiet Com munism. But the fight to keep the flag of freedom flying is a bigger fight even than putting the quietus on the Kremlin...
Since the FCC quietus, WHRB engineers have been engaged in modifying the transmission system to reduce field strength and shielding and repairing the defective transmitter to cut down radiation leakage. Most of the work has gone into running the coaxial cable system into Adams, Kirkland, and Winthrop, which had not yet been converted...