Word: squelched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portuguese themselves are neither particularly prudish nor incorruptible, Salazar's puritanical regime, with the help of a highly efficient police organization, has always tried to silence even the faintest whisper of vice in high places. Last week, however, Salazar's regime failed in its efforts to squelch the worst public scandal in its 40 years of rule...
...than passionate indignation. I think President Johnson's public image no more endearing than anybody else does, but I'm increasingly convinced that few men in our history have been more unjustly vilified. Having no idea what I would do in his place, I will continue to squelch whatever whimsical criticisms, unweighted by mental effort, get voiced to me. This is not to say that I think Johnson has usually been right; only that he stands fair to be martyred by a generation of critics who have not tried or troubled to understand his horrible position. JUDITH MOFFETT...
Classroom Dialogist. Claremont Men's College, near Los Angeles, has only 626 students, but it also has Bronx-born Political Scientist Martin Dia mond, 46, who has turned an offbeat set of experiences into a classroom asset. He learned how to intrigue a crowd and squelch hecklers while plugging socialist causes on New York street corners when he was the age of his students...
...printers' Bert Powers have made their disapproval loud and clear. For public consumption at least, Guildsman Murphy demanded as the price of merger that the publishers keep their entire present staffs on salary for at least one year-a proposal that the publishers were quick to squelch. One of the major reasons for merging is to trim costs by cutting payrolls...
...faculty on how to elect a committee to help choose her successor, and even on what to do in case of a tie vote. Whereupon, without fuss or fluster, she skipped off to a secluded vacation. Few faculty members shared her serenity and poise, and many failed to squelch the tears that flowed at the thought of Miss Clapp's leaving...