Word: quietus
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...secrets are accepted, and rightly so, in periods of war or crisis, but the army-navy attitude goes beyond this in an unwarranted fashion. Reporters are discouraged from printing unsavory material by the threat of blacklist--being refused access to government releases or press conferences. In this manner a quietus is put on reports of waste and inefficiency in the building of our national defense, so that optimistic generalities prevail. The absurd "voluntary censorship" on the presence of British warships in New York and San Francisco harbors was an attempt to keep ammunition from the isolationists. Coming closer to home...
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...TIME, Oct. 30, you quote the New York Times as saying: "Men and women in Salem, two centuries ago, were burned for witchcraft far less amazing. . . ." Cannot your magazine help to put the quietus on this old lie, which crops up periodically? No witches were ever burned in New England: a number were hanged and one was pressed to death-a record of which we are not proud, but at least we are not guilty of the more cruel accusation...
...idea why he did it, but he found himself knocking on the door. As he recalls it, he was going to ask if this were where someone named Smith lived. Now there was not a sound. The voice had halted abruptly with "...When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?". Vag tapped again--still no sound. Vag tried the door and to his amazement it was unlocked. Warily he pushed it open, and there was an eerie creak of rusty hinges. The room was almost empty except for a case of ancient folios thick with dust...
...Clark, Democratic State Campaign Committee chairman, and Ellis Patterson, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, are Communist Party members; that Culbert Olson, Democratic candidate for Governor, and Sheridan Downey, for Senator, loyally subscribe to the Communist "Party Line." Whereupon Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee vigilantly awoke from quietus, announced that it would investigate reports that Mr. Knowles's Associated Farmers is window dressing for union-busting bankers, utilities, railroads...