Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seizure of power by Bonaparte's nephew, Louis Napoleon. A motion of censure was passed, charging De Gaulle with "violating the constitution of which he is the guardian, and thus opening a breach through which an adventurer might some day pass to overthrow the Republic and suppress liberty...
...alarm was justified but belated. All through August, St. Pete had recorded a gradual increase in the number of cases of St. Louis encephalitis,- an inflammation of the brain caused by a virus that is carried by mosquitoes. City authorities tried to suppress the news, and were helped by the fact that St. Louis encephalitis, or SLE, is hard to diagnose with certainty. But in late August the number of cases increased until last week there were at least 164 (with 50 proved by laboratory tests) and 13 deaths. Elsewhere in Florida 20 more cases were reported, and a Maryland...
...Evening Standard, is that instead of making a martyr of "this pitiful and eccentric figure," Britons should ignore Mosley and "allow him to drown in his own paranoia." That seems to be the government's intention. At week's end, Home Secretary Henry Brooke declined requests to suppress fascist rallies, even though they seemed likely to result in violence...
...blood, it does much to regulate breathing. Most notably, an increase in the blood's carbon dioxide content sets off a carotid body reaction that can bring on a choking attack of asthma by causing fast, shallow breathing in lungs unable to handle the added load. To suppress these excessive reactions, Dr. Nakayama wondered, why not cut out one or both carotid bodies? After tests on animals, Dr. Nakayama tried taking carotid bodies from his patients. They needed only a local anesthetic, though to get at the glomus, he had to sever one of the thyroid arteries...
...polemical issue of last spring, I.e. had this to say about Harvard lectures: "The most frustrating thing about lectures at Harvard is the impossibility of disagreement or questioning. One must suppress one's doubts in order to hear and copy down; if one thinks about one's questions one loses track of the babble, and when it is over one has the sense of having missed something, though undoubtedly one hasn't. Not only does one not learn from lectures, one also loses the ability or the urge to ask questions...