Word: repressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Worcester study will involve approximately 10,000 women in Haiti and Puerto Rico, half of whom have been using birth control pills and half vaginal contraceptives. Pincus has been working with the groups since 1956, looking for signs that birth control pills repress cervical cancer. For the last four years Dr. Rutstein has been responsible for organizing this experiment and analyzing data...
...Never repress your moral sensibilities. Never. You have to give them outlets..." he said solemnly. Then he grinned, adding. "Of course money is always a very good...
With that, Castello Branco laid down a new Institutional Act far tougher than the one imposed to govern the country immediately after the revolution. It gives him power to suspend the political rights of any Brazilian, sack any municipal or federal legislator, intervene in any state "to prevent or repress the subversion of order." He can declare a state of siege for up to 180 days, shut down the national Congress, and decree any laws "complementary to the present act." Moreover, the armed forces, through the National Security Council, can dismiss any public employees who are deemed "incompatible with...
...Authors Waltz and Kaplan tell it Belli's next mistake was to assume that Judge Joe B. Brown would repress his own "passion for the limelight" and let the trial be moved out of Dallas-a false hope that spurred the Californian to insult scores of prospective Texas jurors by making repeated attacks on Dallas as a "city of shame...
...flashbacks consist first of glimpses shot almost subliminally on the screen, followed by a somewhat organized grouping of images. The audience thus enters Nazemann's mind as he struggles both to recall and repress his past until consciousness finally wins. A dog barking on a Harlem street, for example, calls forth terrifying, split-second sequences of German police dogs alternating with the blackness of the Negro ghetto until Nazemann begins to see the dog tearing at his best friend's heels and the man clutching the prison fence in fear...