Word: damper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasional Damper. In his dedicated effort to excise this international growth, Behrendt is not content with mere angry words. For the last seven years, as the Algemeen Handelsblad's editorial cartoonist, he has thrust repeatedly at world Communism with one of the sharpest and most therapeutic pens in all of Europe. He attacks his favorite target, Khrushchev, with such passion that the paper occasionally feels it necessary to put the damper on Fritz: last week his editors vetoed a Behrendt proposal to draw two Dutchmen convicted in Kiev as spies, beneath a bed occupied by a snoozing Khrushchev. Most...
...Farmers, promised cement and sugar-beet plants by Menderes, now talk openly against Gursel when there are no soldiers around. There is grumbling, too, over the fact that the army is still making occasional arrests for "antirevolutionary activities," a vague charge theoretically punishable by death and thus a powerful damper on the right to dissent...