Word: squelching
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...gays and lesbians at Harvard. New regulations restricting the placement of posters also appear to be aimed at GSA, which successfully advertised its activities last year through a series of poster barrages. Together, the new postering rules and restricted access to registration packets amount to a medieval attempt to squelch an active minority at Harvard. Registration envelopes should be open to all student groups, and the right of minorities to be heard must not be denied. If there is some rule on the books that would restrict access to the envelopes if it were, enforced, that rule should be scrapped...
...infrequent occasions when they got a chance, Crimson goalies Pete Walsh and Ben Erulcar came up with some big saves to preserve the shutout. Early in the game, Walsh pushed himself into a crowd of players in front of the goal to snag a loose ball and squelch the threat. Erulcar duplicated the trick in the closing minutes...
...outshone, defensemen Scott Pink, Haywood Miller and Frank Prezioso stepped up their pace to squelch the Dartmouth comeback attempt. Swarming the Big Green, the defensemen forced the late turnovers and put out the fire...
...Kabul Robert Neumann, the Russians had three choices: 1) "To let Afghanistan go, in which case the government would have fallen within a week." That would have cost the Russians credibility in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. 2) A "massive Russian military infusion," in which the Soviets would try to squelch the rebellion. Commented Neumann: "This option opens up the real possibility of a Soviet Viet Nam." 3) A coup to install a puppet at the head of the government in the hope that he could bring things under control...