Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "If this country ever needed a Mussolini, it needs one now," declared Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania. In Europe, indeed, the week of Roosevelt's Inauguration was the same week in which Adolf Hitler used the Reichstag fire to win emergency powers and suppress all opponents of his New Order for Germany...
...that is where the documentary--and much current thinking about Vietnam--goes astray. The disastrous American intervention emerged not as an ill-advised adventure doomed from the start, but as a mammouth screw-up. It ended in failure not because America tried to suppress a civil war it could neither control nor understand, but because the military hierarchy malfunctioned and the civilians in command lacked the will power to force matters to a successful conclusion. If only we had not "fought with one hand tied behind our back," America would have won this war just...
...link between ovulation and exercise may also involve a natural opium-like substance, beta-endorphin, that pours into the bloodstream during stressful workouts. Beta-endorphin has been shown to suppress female hormones regulating the menstrual cycle. In any case, for women runners being treated for infertility, good advice seems to be: stop running...
...thing should be perfectly clear: The "restoration of order" by brute force is impossible. It is impossible especially in Poland, where destruction of hopes people cherished so long can bring only more and more resistance--even if it will be only a passive resistance. Solidarity cannot be suppressed, since the only possible way to suppress it would be to exterminate ten million people--people who believed and still believe that the progress of democracy is the only chance of improving their lives. The Polish military regime and its Soviet principals will be at war, with the Polish people as long...
...long haul. In physical terms, the army and the other security forces are stretched to the limit. Said one Western diplomat, "There is not one unit or piece of equipment in reserve." Most soldiers are on 18-hr, shifts. The army is not being used to suppress strikes or break up demonstrations. A tank may be used to burst through a factory gate or fire a warning shot, but it is the militia (police) who are left to do the dirty work...