Word: squelches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diego Millionaire C. Arnholt Smith, a longtime Nixon backer. Smith was under investigation in 1970 for possible violations of federal law by channeling campaign contributions to Nixon in 1968. LIFE charged that through the White House, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service, the Administration tried to squelch investigations, delay prosecutions and interfere with cases involving Smith, another major G.O.P. fund raiser in San Diego and a former mayor of the city, Democrat Frank Curran...
There seems little doubt that she actually wrote the memo, but there are conflicting theories about why. According to one, she wrote it for the exact reason it states-to squelch loose talk about the $400,000 gift by company officials. Others suggest that she was about to be fired because of her abrasive personality and that she fabricated the memo to get even with ITT. The corporation has officially denied that the contribution to the G.O.P. was in any sense a political payoff, and insisted that there was no deal of any kind to settle the antitrust case...
...farm and rid it of rats. They think he's strange (a justified opinion), and grow to hate him. And they try to get back at him by flirting with his wife; two of them hunger for Army on her own, considerable, merits. The Sumners' pastorale closes with a squelch when a cat is hung in their closet, which Amy sees as a test of David: "They want to show you they can get into your bedroom...
...read the words of the doubting people with impatience. They want to see mature faith instantly, as if souls were like so much freeze-dried coffee just waiting for the hot water and the swish of the spoon. I hate to see these hard hearts jumping in to squelch a new batch of turned-on people. Faith is an ugly thing to nonbelievers. It hurts to hope for something as big as universal love. It's a pain worth having...
...like a manic, peroxided Tarzan. It took two years for him to teach elephant and tiger to cooperate. He had them sleep close together. Later, he took them for walks. Even now, the elephant wears thick padding on his neck during the stunt: Gebel-Williams has been unable to squelch the tiger's instinct to gnaw a hole into the neck of his "victim...