Word: suppressant
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...court affidavit. He said that the people who worked on it were "uniformly bright and interested, although not always versed in the art of research. Of course, we all had our prejudices and axes to grind and these shine through clearly at times, but we tried, we think, to suppress or compensate for them. Writing history, especially where it blends into current events, is a treacherous exercise. We could not go into the minds of the decision makers. We often could not tell whether something happened because someone decided it, decided against it, or because it unfolded from the situation...
...secret documents in U.S. history had suddenly exposed the sensitive inner processes whereby the Johnson Administration had abruptly escalated the nation's most unpopular?and unsuccessful?war. The Nixon Government, battling stubbornly to withdraw from that war at its own deliberate pace, took the historic step of seeking to suppress articles before publication, and threatened criminal action against the nation's most eminent newspaper...
...confrontation was historic. For the first time in U.S. history, the Government had gone to court to suppress publication of a major article in a major newspaper. In so doing, the Nixon Administration revived that ancient antithesis of a free press, the long discredited practice of "prior restraint." For its part, the Government claimed that never before had a newspaper published top-secret information that would endanger the national interest...
BECAUSE she is so sensitive about the female body, one wonders why she has chosen a male image for the title. Rather than saying simply that women have too long had to suppress their energy and aggressiveness, she says instead that they've been castrated. Metaphor or not, it's annoying that women must be constantly compared to men. Although it's not, it sounds like penis envy in another form...
...sense of "unspeakable trauma" hides beneath Israel's bustle of self-assertion. An excess of pride is matched by an excess of shame. The "urge to forget and suppress" is as compulsive as "the urge to remember" and to ask without ceasing: "Who is a Jew?" There is a mood of permanent danger, of being encircled and alone...