Word: repressedly
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...began as the centrist party which emerged from the tumult of the Mexican revolution and has steadily consolidated power ever since. Its leadership has never hesitated to cajole or co-opt the wayward peasant leader or union boss. If all else fails, the PRI retains a powerful ability to repress its more intransigent opponents...
...they have all been totally hopeless," says Professor of Surgery Lawrence H. Cohn, another heart transplant pioneer. The implantation of a foreign organ from a different species into a human causes continuous, massive rejection even though the organs are functionally similar, he says. Doctors are barely able to repress rejection in human-to-human transplants, he added...
Mario Vargas Llosa, 48, on the paradox of being a Latin American novelist: "Because you know how to read and write, you have an audience, you are respected-even by people who repress you and sometimes put you in prison or even kill you. In fact, if you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know...
What follows is a predictably heroic attempt by Stuart--the educated, urbanized outsider--to save the town from itself. He suspects that a toxic substance is causing the townspeople to repress the emotional mechanism designed to curb passions, literally lifting the lid off the id. His discoveries come--unsurprisingly--too late. The film's closing minutes play like a spinoff of The Stepford Wives...
Students couldn't fight the president, so they fought the authority around them," recalls one student activist. ROTC was seen by SDS members as the staffing mechanism for an army used to repress popular movements...