Word: squelches
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Some now say that Franco's injured hand may have to be amputated, but he does his best to squelch the story. Recently, he has made a special effort to show him self in public, waving the hand, grasping trophies, gripping rostrums as he delivers his speeches in the familiar piping voice...
Harvard managed to squelch a brief threat by Tufts in the sixth. With two out and two men on, Jumbo first sacker Benin took too long a lead off first base and found himself in a pickle. Crimson first baseman Bernstein tagged him as he tried to retreat...
...guinea pigs are unlikely ever to experience the psychological stresses of real shelter life. The first test recruits were not told how long they would be confined, but they knew that they would eventually get out in good health. Aware that they were under observation, they carefully tended to squelch unsociable feelings; the Navy even let them have all the cigarettes they wanted to avoid enmity over a dwindling supply. And each man in the shelter knew that he would be given a 72-hour liberty for his trouble-a considerably different prospect than emerging into an atomic wasteland...
...Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, President Kennedy's brother-in-law, has political ambitions, would like to run for Governor of Illinois or mayor of Chicago. Shriver hopes to squelch before they happen any embarrassing incidents in Peace Corps activities overseas, for the sake of the corps of course, and maybe with an eye to Illinois, too. Last week he forehandedly assigned an aide to "think about all the possible problems we could have anywhere and see if we can head them off." All of which could pose a "possible problem" for his kinsman in the White House: with...
Miss Keith didn't completely squelch the proposal, however. Since it is so far into reading period already, and since most people don't really care enough to fight about the issue right now, she said that in Briggs Hall the matter would ride until spring. "I'm not about to shove that petition around now," she stated...