Word: quietus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called Franco "a good Christian gentleman." In 1935, as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary, he went to Paris and made an abortive deal with slippery Pierre Laval which sabotaged all efforts to stop Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia (by dismembering the Negus' country and putting the quietus on League oil sanctions...
When the Japs were masters of Angaur, in the Palau Islands, they tied noncooperative natives to trees and bashed in their heads with coconut-palm logs. This put a quietus on native dancing, which the Japanese considered a heathenish practice...
...Winston Churchill was still far from disarming British critics of his conduct of the war (see above), no one found fault with his spirit last week. A few days after outmaneuvering his Parliamentary questioners, he gave one of his richest expressions of Britain's fighting purpose, putting the quietus on any suspicion that the Churchill Government might accept a negotiated peace...
...secrets are accepted, and rightly so, in periods of war or crisis, but the army-navy attitude goes beyond this in an unwarranted fashion. Reporters are discouraged from printing unsavory material by the threat of blacklist--being refused access to government releases or press conferences. In this manner a quietus is put on reports of waste and inefficiency in the building of our national defense, so that optimistic generalities prevail. The absurd "voluntary censorship" on the presence of British warships in New York and San Francisco harbors was an attempt to keep ammunition from the isolationists. Coming closer to home...