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Word: suppressant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will the University of Mississippi suppress this freedom of expression because it does not adhere to the principles of certain groups? Is Ole Miss truly a University? SIDNA BROWER, Editor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ole Miss Editor Comments | 4/23/1963 | See Source »

...mistrial; nine weeks later, Hoffa was freed after the jury could not agree on his guilt or innocence. Now, in addition, Hoffa had pointed a finger at the Attorney General of the U.S., whose duty it is to see that justice takes an unhampered course, for trying to suppress a fact in order to win a conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: A Question of Duty | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...projectiles with a primordial roar. King Zor is already stirring up controversy among disapproving parents, who claim the toy teaches children combat. Glass disagrees, calls it a game of mechanized tag: "It is better to give a child an outlet for his combative instincts than to suppress them. He feels like a knight fighting a dragon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Plastic Sugarplums | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...Spiegel case will not be resolved for many months, but so far Adenauer has behaved like an angry child caught with his hand in the cooky-jar. It is disturbing to see the leaders of a constitutional Western democracy revert to police methods to suppress criticism. Hopefully the German people will keep their government on the path of democracy which it has followed since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Die Spiegelaffaire | 11/14/1962 | See Source »

Though the seafaring English came to dominate the trade, England was the first country to try to suppress it. In 1782 the British public was aroused by an incredible court case: an English captain who had thrown 132 slaves overboard tried to collect insurance on them as "jettisoned cargo." In the parliamentary investigations that followed, slavers vied with one another in painting the slaves' happy life aboard ship. "When sailors are flogged," one piously testified, "it is always done out of hearing of the Africans so as not to disturb them." What shocked Britons almost as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unexpiated Guilt | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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