Word: squelched
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...insisted that it would be a get-acquainted session without an agenda, but at their meeting in early December he handed Gorbachev a list of 21 American proposals that drew a generally favorable response. Simultaneously, the President authorized U.S. aircraft to go into action in the Philippines, helping squelch an attempted coup against President Corazon Aquino by flying "cover" over rebel air bases and preventing mutineer pilots from taking...
...Liberal Democratic Party tightened its stranglehold on power in the early 1950s, it moved to squelch the powerful labor unions that had formed in the economic chaos following...
Elections would be acceptable, they said, only as part of a defined process leading toward Palestinian independence. The statement was also intended to remind exiled P.L.O. leaders, who had avoided an outright rejection of the Shamir plan in their dialogue with the U.S., not to squelch the uprising without exacting major concessions from Israel...
...getting financing delayed the shooting until last summer. And not until last week, after months of turndowns, did the producers find a company willing to distribute the film. The stumbling block, say Wired's backers, was a Hollywood community that closed ranks against a picture it wanted to squelch. Says Woodward, an adviser on the film: "A large portion of Hollywood didn't want this movie made because there's too much truth...
...real focus of last week's rescue effort was not the would-be Defense Secretary but the President himself. Determined not to retreat in their first showdown with Congress -- and no less determined to squelch the spreading impression that Bush is off to a feckless start -- the President and his aides shifted their goal from saving Tower's nomination to tarring the Democrats with charges of character assassination and hypocrisy. Positioning themselves for the inevitable future battles over the budget and foreign policy, the Republicans hoped to rescue something from the wreckage of the Tower affair by lowering Congress...