Word: squelch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: There are over 100 different nationalities which exist in the Soviet Union today. Despite efforts by Russia's leader to squelch this ethnicity, these national groups continue to be viable forces and are increasingly becoming the cause of intro-Soviet instability. Do you see Andropov adopting any significantly new plan to deal with these various nationalities...
...have met Khrushchev's threat that he had mobilized his troops with the rejoinder, "So have I." The Soviets backed down, and Gomulka became a national hero. Fourteen years later, riots broke out protesting failing economic policies, and Gomulka was forced to resign after security forces, summoned to squelch the uprising, killed dozens of workers...
...surely more lasting. Style has to do with assumptions, even more than attitudes, and much of what Armani has contributed to contemporary design assumes, then conveys, a common, casual sensory enjoyment of clothing. Not as a statement, not as a sign language or a power trip or a status squelch or any of the other miscellany from the pop-shrink handbook; just as a simple and sustaining pleasure all unto itself...
...security forces were being brought to judicial account over the deaths of noncombatants. Even before the judge's decision, Salvadoran President José Napoleon Duarte, in a national television address, called the men "the only and the true guilty ones" in the crimes. Duarte seemed particularly anxious to squelch accusations that the murders might have been ordered by higher authorities in the Salvadoran military...
...statistics cannot record the effectiveness of Judge's kamikaze pounces on any ball in the area, executed while knowing full well that a sprinting forward might slide into her. Neither can they assess the value of her gravity-defying jumps to punch the ball out of the area and squelch a corner kick...