Word: squelches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grow up peaceful." Peter is the agitator of the lot, an anarchist who feeds to a begging hippie shrimp that customers, as the disgusted workers snarl, "pay good money--$2.85 a pound--for." He echoes a Shavian respect for "the able-minded, able-bodied pauper," who refuses to squelch his imagination in the ranks of unskilled labor...
Apple, the leader of the pack on political trends, was quick to squelch that line of attack...
...enthusiasts is embodied in the National Rifle Association. With 1,050,000 members and an annual budget of $10 million, it is one of the most powerful lobbies in the nation. Though the N.R.A. has eased its stand against the banning of Saturday night specials, it has managed to squelch any legislation with teeth. When the N.R.A. objected to a recent CBS television documentary on hunting, all except one sponsor-Block Drug Co.-canceled out, and CBS ran a sequel giving the rifleman's point of view. The N.R.A. takes pride in its nationwide programs, which offer instruction...
...back quick enough. He even went to first and came around to score later than inning, and batted two more times before they took him out of the game. There wasn't even the rush of sudden tragedy, then--one read about it the next morning, a nightmare you squelch, mind at rest, until quietly you're plunged back into it again. It's only a game, sure, but when in Boston and throughout New England there are more than one million people who spend three hours a day watching or listening to the Red Sox, or at least conscious...
...relax is difficult for me. I know it is important to have a sensible schedule and not to exaggerate, but I am like a horse used to pulling a great load. I can't begin to think what would happen if I stopped dancing. I have to squelch those thoughts, drive them down. The stage is a form of opium for me - a psychological feeling I must have, I cannot be without...