Word: quietus
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...worst possible thing for the two men in question is the all too familiar routing of petitions, and investigation, and martyr creation. Nothing could make it harder for Walsh and Sweezy than to have this storm of protest over a perfectly routine matter, and the sooner they put a quietus on the whole affair and the sooner the University issues a much needed clarification of its true position, the better it will be for all concerned. April...
...early novel by Evelyn Waugh. An intellectual dandy, hardly a year out of Oxford and already weary of the world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...
...struggling with a cantankerous but unorganized mass of natives whose language, religion, law and customs were totally different from their own. This lively historical novel deals with the mid-century years when Oliver Cromwell, having beheaded King Charles I. marched into Ireland with his vengeful army to put a quietus to the Irish question...
...occasion to make the Danes melancholy, for the dramatic climax would, no doubt, be Marilyn as Ophelia frisking about the lily pads clad in a bikini for a real razzle-dazzle death scene. At this point, the profit-sharing prince would no doubt be moved to make his quietus with a bare bodkin...
...afternoon wore on, quietus got an "o," badinage became batonage, and a youngster blurted g-y-r-o-c . . . for gyroscopic and with a despairing cry ("I missed it!") sat down. By 5 p.m. only three contestants were left. Quincunx,'' shot the pronouncer at Naomi Klein of the Yeshiva of Flatbush school (Brooklyn, N.Y.)-and then there were only...