This, of course, did not halt the hand-wringing in either Knoxville or Los Angeles, nor did it quell any suspicions that college sports have become irretrievably amoral.
Clearly, they are all far wealthier than the vast, vast majority of Americans, and it's becoming clearer and clearer that, just like Romney, Clinton will have to deal with questions about whether she's out of touch with average Americans (and $225,000 speaking gigs won't do anything to quell that).
"I don't want to quell that anger.
The new questions did little to quell that debate among many immigrant groups, who complained that the citizenship test would become even more daunting.
If we, er, when we get a divorce, does that quell 'conflict of interest' accusations about BP?" (At the time, Todd Palin was working for BP on the North Slope pipeline).
But they found that it did not quell the agitation, that more and more women came in and even passed that terrible ordeal, and they were obliged to let them go.
She acknowledged that there was anxiety in the newsroom and said she was doing her best to quell that.
Auto executives welcome the plan but say it doesn't quell congestion or security worries.
But that did not quell speculation that has circled since.
Though that statistic is consistently corroborated by Title X audits, as well as independent researchers, it does little to quell the notion that Planned Parenthood is in the "abortion business" or perhaps devoted to eliminating human reproduction altogether.
The win was so dominant that it did little to quell speculation that she could more than hold her own against the boys in Saturday's Kentucky Derby.
