Word: squelched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cosmologist was bothered by the bizarre idea of a swiftly expanding universe, no one yet has been able to prove it wrong. But last week in the British journal Nature, Physicist Alastair Ward of Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology suggested a possible way to squelch the big explosion and bring the universe back into a steady state of vast but stable dimensions. Colliding light beams may lose some of their energy, says Ward, as photons (particles of light) carom off other photons. The loss of energy might cause a lengthening of wave length, and in light...
Ever since the Saturday Evening Post merged with Respectability, the association has proved mutually profitable. Looking at the naughty but innocent urchins on its cover, the thrilling but insipid fiction in its pages, the homey cartoons, the clever "Perfect Squelch," and the biting but conservative editorials, one wonders whether America was conceived in the Post's image, or vice versa...
...most perfect squelch I've heard about sports slang came from one of our young writers arguing that "Bosox" and "Chisox" were ridiculous. His opponent in the debate continued to say that such words made it easier for headlines. The first man answered: "I can see it now. WASHNATS COP PAIR." HOWARD KLEINBERG Executive Sports Editor Miami News Miami...
...moralistic veneer of Jew Baiter Toynbee has become transparent. With authentic bigotry, he projects the guilt he feels upon the victim and thereby attempts to squelch the inner voice of his own conscience...
Obviously sensitive on the point, and anxious to squelch the talk of Soviet vulnerability. Tass last week produced new evidence it said came from Powers himself. "Apparently my father misunderstood my answers when I was on trial," Tass quoted Powers as writing in a letter to the New York Times. "I am sure my plane did not blow up by itself. All the indicators that register the performance of the engine were in good order until the very moment of the explosion which I felt and heard . . . I was at the maximum height when the explosion occurred...