Word: squelched
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...weeks opened beside the pool at the exclusive Beverly Hills Tennis Club. The world's No. 1 player was nursing a sprained ankle, but the injury did not stop him from uninhibitedly demonstrating a self-choreographed twist-and-shake step he calls "Soul Train." Nor did the sedate surroundings squelch his urge to sing a few bars from the rock song Philadelphia Freedom in an uncertain tenor or to entertain the club's teenagers with raunchy jokes. James Scott Connors, 22 going on 19, was taking his own kind of time-out from training for this Saturday's televised million...
...turns out this kind of political manipulation can work in Massachusetts. Indeed it is working quite effectively right here in Cambridge under the umbrella of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library effort. The idea, it seems, is to divide the Cambridge community and subsequently squelch any opposition to the Library Corporation's controversial plans...
Colson would be able to cite Dean's orders to squelch...
Without releasing much solid evidence, the Administration tried to squelch such notions, insisting that the Soviets had been on the verge of sending troops to the Middle East. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger reported that U.S. officials had been watching Soviet moves with increasing misgivings. The Russians had built up their naval forces in the Mediterranean from 60 to 85 ships since the war began, put about 50,000 airborne troops on "comprehensive alert," and mobilized two mechanized divisions near the Black Sea. They then abruptly ended their supply flights to Egypt, leading U.S. analysts to fear that the transports...
...jail under an order signed by Lardner-Burke. The vague grounds: the freelance reporter was "likely to commit acts prejudicial to public safety or public order." Free translation: the white-supremacist government of Ian Smith did not like what Niesewand had been writing, and has the dictatorial powers to squelch...