Word: suppressant
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Actions contrary to this principle deny both speakers and their listeners the rights of free speech and assembly; they suppress dissent; and they create an atmosphere of coercion and intimidation hostile to the exchange of views. Such an atmosphere can produce an insidious form of censorship in which members of the University refrain from inviting certain guests or even from expressing certain ideas...
...that the traditional role of scientists is advisory, and as often as not their advice is ignored. "The height of the new folly," he says, "is the rising call upon scientists and technicians to foresee all the consequences of their actions and to make a moral commitment to suppress work on any discovery that might some day be dangerous, which is to demand that they be not only scientists but certified clairvoyants and saints...
Since then Pawlison's been more able to suppress the competitive aspect and think about the aesthetic side instead. The rhythm has become the important thing. "This year in some way I've been reexperiencing it the way it used...
...patient fellow. I listened to his story and I nodded my head here and there while Anderson explained this to me. "When Anderson finished explaining this I learned back in my chair but I could not suppress a little grin. Slowly, ever so slowly, I began to explain. . . "You see, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Wilson just told me that one of the interesting things about the photo was that it showed people in front of the doors with their arms linked, and this was something that Mr. Wilson said the Committee did not know at the time it punished Fink...
Even the saturnine Mr. Anderson could not suppress a little grin from spreading over his face. Mr. Anderson had made up this three-leveled cake about these levels of punishment, and, well, this cake had just fallen into his lap, and not even the saturnine Mr. Anderson could stop himself from grinning with all this cake in his lap. I then informed the grinning Mr. Anderson that I would file the papers necessary for a formal appeal...