Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editorial bravado: "I like to think of Saturday Review as an antidote to the sleaziness that is invading our national culture, the cult of incoherence, the competition to pulverize language and glamorize brutality." He paused. "You bet I am tempted to return. But if I am wise, I will suppress the temptation...
...obvious danger in Honduras' new antiguerrilla campaign is that Suazo Cordova and Alvarez will seek to suppress subversion too zealously while trampling on the citizenry. Some Hondurans are already alarmed at Decree 33, an antiterrorist law that Suazo Córdova has pushed through the National Assembly. A countervailing danger is that antiguerrilla efforts by the 14,000-member Honduran armed forces will prove ineffective, leading to an increase in guerrilla activities within the country. "Honduras is poor," notes one prominent diplomat in Tegucigalpa. "If [its leaders] want to play this game, they'd better be damn sure...
...variety of "derogatory statements," including "The police world-I generalize-is a racist world. We're reflective of society itself," and "The I.A.C.P. is today dedicated to preventing most of the reforms that are essential to the improvement of police service." Condemning the committee's "attempt to suppress conflicting viewpoints," Murphy angrily asked that the hearing be open. When the committee said no, he stayed away from the hearing, released the sorry details to the press and appeared on the Today show to argue his case...
...much could the U.S. corporations possibly have helped Blacks in S.A. in the over 30 years of apartheid? Clearly Putnam must be referring to fears that the government of S.A. would collapse without U.S. business, taxes, technology, loans, capital equipment and military goods and supervision to suppress growing Black resistance...
Militant antipapal Protestants staged their demonstrations, but they seemed eerily irrelevant in the glow of celebration and history that emanated from the Pope. Uniformed police and plainclothes agents were out in force to suppress any mob trouble, but they were never put to the test. In Liverpool, where police were ready for the worst, the Orange Order, a group of bitter opponents of the papal visit, launched no demonstrations...