Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge it on its own merits, the Legion stand appeared highhanded. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: ". . . The Legion has made the cardinal error of attacking the art in place of the artist . . . To make rude remarks about movies you do not like is an American privilege. But to suppress them ... is not such a privilege, and it is not good sense . . . Charles Chaplin's political activities, if any, can be dealt with at the proper place and time, but to drag his movie into the indictment is oppressive and ill-advised...
...American way to combat the argument of someone with whom we disagree is not to suppress the utterance of another person's opinion, but to disprove it. It the long years wrich have followed the Civil War, the race against which this film discriminates has produced a more than ample record of equal and responsible citizenship...
Good satirists get so hot under the choler that they are always in danger of breaking out in a sentimental sweat-which is why many of them cling tightly to cold ferocity and suppress the feeblest spasms of affection. Satirist Evelyn Waugh has been no exception, but he is one of the few of his kind who has found the conflict between satirical art and goodness of heart a nagging, challenging problem. His ideal is the simple, honest "Christian gentleman"; Waugh cherishes things romantic, patriotic and traditional. Moreover, he is a religious man, whose irrepressible satirical arrogance is at variance...
...conceive how an article could have been less objectively written than the one, "Missionaries in Rome" [Sept. 29] ... Does TIME favor religious freedom? Does it make any difference to TIME whether 450 people or 450,000 people are involved? How would TIME describe an effort to suppress a Roman Catholic mission in some Protestant stronghold in America...
...Democratic symbol, a rooster, with the legend: "White Supremacy-for the Right." Said Dewey: "White supremacy is the battle cry of the old Ku Klux Klan. It is the battle cry of the hatemongers and the fascists. It is the battle cry of those who would suppress the rights of all minorities . . . The Ku Klux Klan white-supremacy slogan was anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish and anti-Negro . . . Governor Stevenson pretends to be a modern, liberal gentleman who reads well-written, glittering speeches, defending the disreputable record of the Truman Administration. Meanwhile, with his full knowledge, Senator Sparkman continues to beat...