Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faiths. For those not in his power whom he hoped to win as allies, Napoleon had more honeyed words. He was an atheist who hoped, he wrote, to "suppress all monks indiscriminately" and use religion chiefly as a means of teaching docility to growing girls ("There is nothing I dislike so much as a meddlesome woman"). But he readily became "Your Holiness' devoted son" when he needed papal aid-and an ardent Moslem when he invaded Egypt ("There is no other god but God, and Mahomet is his prophet!"). French Jews, he ordered, must be convinced that with...
...some U.S. editors still clung to their skepticism, they lost it next day when Jacques Fath followed with his own version of "the boyish look" and the "downward-sliding silhouette." His models walked with their weight thrown back on their heels to suppress bosoms and accentuate their southering belts. There was no blinking it: it was the "debutante slouch" of the '20s. Could beaded dresses, long cigarette holders and the shrill laugh be far behind...
Around the U.S., editors agreed that the resolution was a step in the wrong direction. To City Editor Ralph Shawhan of the Los Angeles Mirror, it was the beginning of "a gradual attempt [by] all the little pipsqueaks and politicians to suppress the news generally." Said Executive Editor Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters of the Chicago Daily News: "Editors are getting pretty sore with lawyers who seem to believe courts belong to them...
Missed Point? When G.M. dealers wrote in to complain that the story would hurt their sales, the W.SJ. printed the letters and an editorial: "When a newspaper begins to suppress . . . news, whether at the behest of its advertisers or on pleas from special segments of business ... it will soon cease to have readers." The Journal, rejoined G.M., seemed to miss the point. "To the extent that this was a reporting of news derived from sources free to divulge the information, we have no objection . . . even though such information, published many months in advance of the introduction of new models...
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...