Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conservatives urged, "Try out for the CRIMSON staff. The task will not be an easy one. Some may find it necessary to suppress their strong conservative views during tryouts, but once having been elected to the Crime staff, they can make their influence felt...
Several attempts were made in the dining halls to suppress the petitions. One student spoke for over an hour at Harkness Graduate Commons, standing beside the petitioner, and pleaded with the passing graduate students to sign his own "Ten Million for McCarthy" petition. When no one would sign, he cried out, "I'm going to sign it in front of you, anyway, even though I've already signed once...
...quite got over. Last week three South Carolina newspapers printed an interview with his old military aide, Harry Vaughan, which said that both Truman and Vaughan endorsed Senatorial Candidate Edgar Brown. Brown squirmed like a husband with the wrong shade of lipstick on his collar; his enemies could hardly suppress their glee...
Another administration attack came from the University of Maryland, where the dean of men attempted to suppress an edition of the student paper last fall...
...Suppressing the Facts. Superficially there was little resemblance to that ugly outbreak of anti-Semitism and politics in the French army in the 1890s. What the two cases did have in common was their threat to the whole fabric of government. Men of integrity in the Italian government tried to suppress the Montesi case, not because they were themselves enveloped in its murky mists but because a whole governing society regarded itself, and its competence to govern, involved in the revelations of privileges, corruption and injustice. The government dared not abandon investigation of the case, but was unwilling to pursue...