Word: squelch
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...last week, when she was caught in a downpour during an open-air concert given by Luciano Pavarotti in London's Hyde Park. The occasion, which marked the 30th anniversary of Pavarotti's first major performance, also marked the ninth time in a month that Diana, possibly attempting to squelch growing rumors of marital discord, appeared in public with husband Charles. After huddling under plastic sheeting with a towel over her head during most of the 90-minute program, Diana emerged with dampened hair and less than immaculate clothes. But she still managed to look good when she went backstage...
...outrage and litigation have failed to squelch Scientology. The group, which boasts 700 centers in 65 countries, threatens to become more insidious and pervasive than ever. Scientology is trying to go mainstream, a strategy that has sparked a renewed law-enforcement campaign against the church. Many of the group's followers have been accused of committing financial scams, while the church is busy attracting the unwary through a wide array of front groups in such businesses as publishing, consulting, health care and even remedial education. (See "Germany's Battle Against Scientology...
When the University's staff employees wanted to unionize under the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), Bok tried but failed to squelch the movement...
Perhaps. But with or without Yeltsin, the Soviet ship of state has been foundering. As Gorbachev has turned away from reform and sought to squelch ethnic unrest with strong-arm tactics, Yeltsin's voice has been one of the few public ones consistently opposing him. Yeltsin has said he has no desire to replace Gorbachev, but the President clearly does not trust him. After Soviet paratroops shot their way into the television tower in Lithuania last month, killing 15 demonstrators, Yeltsin flew off to neighboring Estonia and publicly condemned the deployment of soldiers against civilians. He then signed a mutual...
EAGER TO FIGHT the "enemy in the rear," Abraham Lincoln took drastic steps to squelch opposition within the Union during the Civil War. Without consulting Congress, and over the objections of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the president in 1861 suspended the right of habeas corpus in parts of the country. Law enforcement officials jailed without due process those suspected of having Confederate sympathies. Lincoln expanded his edict in 1862, and then, with congressional authorization, applied it to the entire Union the following year. By the war's end, the government had imprisoned 13,000 Americans under the president...