Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupational disease of silicosis. Many others suffer from gas poisoning caused by the badly ventilated mines; doctors send them back to work if they are not more than "50% disabled." The accident rate is high. News of major mining disasters continues to seep out, despite police measures to suppress...
...President of the U.S. last week. Then he went on to explain. The U.S., said Harry Truman, was engaged in a police action. A "bunch of bandits" had attacked the Republic of Korea-a government established by the United Nations-and the Security Council had asked U.N. members to suppress this bandit raid. That was what the U.S. was doing. "We hope we have acted in the cause of peace-there is no other reason for the action we have taken," said Truman...
...force, was integrated into the armed forces in April, and overall charge of anti-Huk operations was given to the armed forces' chief of staff, lantern-jawed Major General Mariano Castaneda. The integration was a step in the right direction, but almost nobody believes that military force can suppress the rebellion unless the government can at the same time win back the confidence of the people...
...effect of the Mundt bill is to lump together actual subversives (of whom few have turned up), idealistic radicals, and people who join sundry "leftist" groups for sundry reasons. The latter two are useful parts of society; the quickest way to bring on a "totalitarian dictatorship" is to suppress criticism from either the right or left...
...interpretation of how she wound up in the Tower of London. Miss Hepburn displays two emotions alternatively through the picture; her usual breathless unhappiness, and a dour sadness. She indicates the latter by quivering her lower jaw, an operation which resembles nothing so much as a successful attempt to suppress a sneeze...