Word: quietus
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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...
...called Franco "a good Christian gentleman." In 1935, as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary, he went to Paris and made an abortive deal with slippery Pierre Laval which sabotaged all efforts to stop Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia (by dismembering the Negus' country and putting the quietus on League oil sanctions...
When the Japs were masters of Angaur, in the Palau Islands, they tied noncooperative natives to trees and bashed in their heads with coconut-palm logs. This put a quietus on native dancing, which the Japanese considered a heathenish practice...
...Winston Churchill was still far from disarming British critics of his conduct of the war (see above), no one found fault with his spirit last week. A few days after outmaneuvering his Parliamentary questioners, he gave one of his richest expressions of Britain's fighting purpose, putting the quietus on any suspicion that the Churchill Government might accept a negotiated peace...