Word: squelches
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...South is just where the Republicans must gain strength if they hope to compete with the Democrats nationally on an equal basis. If only in the interests of the two-party system, we hope that the national convention doesn't squelch that growth just when it was getting started...
...sophisticated." The artist quietly joined the discussion. "It's high up in the mountains," he said. "Snow and icy waters are like that. The colors change." The amateur critic flushed when another bystander identified the old man: "Master Pechstein ought to know." But Pechstein had not come to squelch critics. Said he, beaming: "I'm happy to see so much of my work lined up together again...
...protegee's whims, Johnson flounders in backward child psychology and flinches under systematic torment by the overprecocious moppet. When he finds her smoking and gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with a French singer (Paula Corday), and when she turns his paternal good-night kiss into something more heated, she makes Johnson recoil with the stunned horror of a man discovering that, deep down, he is an all-too-willing fiend...
Some correspondents, after talking to U.N. pilots, were convinced that a new Red jet had made its debut-either a beefed-up MIG-15 or a new-model MIG. The U.S. Air Force did its best to squelch such speculations. Improved Red air tactics, said a high-ranking U.S. airman ("It's only logical to assume they've held exhaustive critiques on our tactics"), could give the mistaken impression that the Reds are flying better planes...
...lead his class when, they warred with New Haven townies. The 1839 Class Bully was a game gent who, as a gag, led his class in a town and gown riot on commencement day just as the procession of the president and dignitaries started. The president tried to squelch the riot, but failed. The sheriff and the Governor of Connecticut had no better luck. Yale decided the next day that its reputation would be on steadier ground if it did away with the Class Bully. The position of a class leader never made a comeback...