Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medical puzzle. But like other stimulants, even caffeine, it apparently intensifies the action of body chemicals called neurotransmitters. Firing off one nerve cell after another like a string of firecrackers, these chemicals help send tiny electrical impulses coursing through the nervous system. (By contrast, narcotics tend to suppress these impulses.) As the signals multiply, they inundate the system's peripheral areas, which control such involuntary functions as the pulse and perspiration. They also flood at least three critical parts of the brain itself: the cerebral cortex, which governs higher mental activities like memory and reasoning; the hypothalamus (appetite, body...
...knows the cause of Crohn's disease, although researchers suspect that a virus or a flaw in the body's immune system may be involved. A cure is similarly elusive. In attempting to control the disease, doctors use drugs that suppress inflammation and the immune system. In severe cases, they must resort to surgery, cutting away diseased portions of bowel and then reconnecting the ends or creating a hole through the abdomen so wastes can be collected in a pouch. But even with such drastic measures, the disease may recur, necessitating more extensive operations...
...Salvadoran army managed to crush the guerrillas long-threatened "final offensive," which began in mid-January. Nonetheless, U.S. military experts concluded that the guerrillas still possessed a large cache of weapons and that the poorly trained, shoddily equipped army could not suppress the resistance entirely. A spectrum of options for helping the regime was considered, ranging from a proposal to provide massive American training for thousands of Salvadoran troops at camps in Panama or the U.S., to a plan for sending in as many as 100 advisers, who would train Salvadoran troops within the country and even accompany them...
Stories to please critics who neither fake laughs nor suppress yawns...
...beauty is only scan deep, how can the buyer beware? The best arbiters of children's books are still, as I.B. Singer says, the children who can neither fake a laugh or suppress a snore. It is they who will be formed by the pages they hold in their hands and in their minds. It is they who will decide which books will be read over and over and which will lie neglected until the next garage sale...