Word: squelch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accused the government of approving mob violence to squelch an opposition rally, unfairly confiscating private property, and packing the national legislature with Sandinistas. When the Sandinistas, having long since deferred plans for free elections in Nicaragua, called for free elections in El Salvador, Chamorro acidly asked: "If Salvadorans can vote, why not us?" After the latest shutdown earlier this month, La Prensa returned with a blistering editorial written by Violeta Chamorro...
...hope that attacks on Rev. Moon will destroy his religious movement are likely to be disappointed. The history of religion shows repeatedly that the fate of the founder may transform the faith of the community, unleashing new vitality (Even the apostasy of Sabbetai Zevi [17th c.] did not squelch his movement...
History, then, offers some cause to hope that Capitol Hill will quickly squelch the 20 court-stripping bills before it. Unfortunately, there are also grounds for pessimism. There is, above all, the fact that Congress now is clearly more conservative than in 1979, when the Senate did pass a bill that would have taken away federal court jurisdiction over the issue of school prayer; the House killed the bill. Political observers suspect that the New Right can get at least some of its measures through the Senate again. But this time around it is less certain, given the new conservative...
After Friday's hero Darren Eliot replaced Hayward in the Cornell nets, a Brock Tredway marker pulled Cornell within four, and the cowbell started up again. But Dan Miele slammed the door at 12:06, beating Eliot to make it 7-2 and squelch Big Red comeback hopes. Kerling and Jeff Baikie made the score respectable later on, before a Sullivan empty-netter with four seconds left officially ended a contest that had been over for 40 minutes. The Friars--who had lost to Cornell in the tournament each of the last two years--had the title...
Quite the contrary. In fact, censorship has been on the rise in the U.S. for the past ten years. Every region of the country and almost every state has felt the flaring of the censorial spirit. Efforts to ban or squelch books in public libraries and schools doubled in number, to 116 a year, in the first five years of the 1970s over the last five of the 1960s-as Author L.B. Woods documents in A Decade of Censorship in America-The Threat to Classrooms and Libraries. 1966-1975. The upsurge in book banning has not since...