Word: squelched
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...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...
...McGeorge Bundy's reply to that asinine group of professors at St. Louis' Washington University was a masterpiece. It should go down in history as "the perfect squelch." Let us hope that more of our officials take McBundy's fine example and slap a few of these intellectuals down when they poke their academic noses outside of their classrooms. Let's put uniforms on a few of them for a starter...
Penn soundly defeated the Crimson fencers in Philadelphia on Saturday, 16-11, to virtually squelch any hopes the team may have had for finishing high in the Ivy League...
...Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs yesterday moved to squelch the first attempt to elect a female undergraduate as senior class marshal in the University's 329-year history...
First, many Northern lobbyists had proven rather imaginative in describing the Party to delegates, at times hinting that the FDP group in Atlantic City would be 50% white. Understandably, the Party wished to squelch such rumors at their source. Second, the Goldwater nomination had impressed FDP leaders with the importance of a Democratic victory in November, and there was acute worry that overzealous lobbying might turn the "Mississippi question" into a wedge between quarelling party factions in key states like New York and California...