Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-conscious and sometimes absurd adolescent, but he is also a doomed human being of special sensitivity?not merely special, as Salinger might say, but Special. As such, he sets the theme for almost everything Salinger has written since Catcher. Most men know how to ignore, suppress or outwit the occasional suspicion that the world is really not to be borne?but the young, the mad. and the saints do not know the trick. To varying degrees, most Salinger characters, includinging those in Franny and Zooey, belong in these three categories. Strangely enough, the young, slightly mad saints are also...
...Chinese Reds had been boasting that since they took over the mainland in 1949, there had been no cases of cholera. Campaigns against filth helped to suppress it, but sanitation has recently been neglected. Last week, still making no admission of cholera, Radio Canton reported an all-out campaign against "seasonal diseases...
...there is no reason for a crisis over Berlin." If trouble starts through Soviet actions, then "all the world will plainly see that the misuse of such words as 'peace' and 'freedom' cannot conceal a threat to raise tension to the point of danger and suppress the freedom of those who now enjoy...
...marshals, or even Army troops to the troubled state. That authority rested in Section 333 of the Armed Forces Code-which derived from an 1871 Insurrection Act that was designed as a legal antidote against Ku Klux Klan rampaging. Section 333 authorizes the President to use "any means" to suppress "insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy" if state officials are unable or unwilling to offer citizens the protection of the law. The section has been used only three times. During the Reconstruction era, Ulysses S. Grant declared several counties in rebellion (notably in South Carolina), employed federal troops...
...Just two weeks before, in an ill-conceived speech, the President had charged them with a sin and told them how to correct it. In its anxiety to report everything, Kennedy had said, the press sometimes spilled national secrets; perhaps U.S. newspapers need some form of self-censorship to suppress news endangering the national interest. Unimpressed, the editors and publishers had trooped to Washington to try to find out exactly what the President wanted them...