Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...integration, and limited participation of Africans in government. But the scale and speed of these advances have not satisfied the increasingly articulate nationalists, who fear that if the Federation is accorded dominion status when the question comes up in 1960, the colonialists will take advantage of their independence to suppress African rights. In line with the official policy, originally that of Cecil Rhodes, of giving the vote to every "civilized man," the white minority has held a decisive, though declining majority in the Federal Parliament...
...around him in their efforts to tell the U.S. defense story. All of this dismayed Congressman John E. Moss's Subcommittee on Government Information. A repeated witness before this and the House Armed Services Committee, Snyder has been accused of "capricious censorship" and of a tendency to suppress information not only for security con siderations but for reasons of "policy" and even of "timeliness...
...carry these concepts into the international field. The U.S. helped base the United Nations Charter on peaceful settlement of disputes in conformity with the principles of justice and international law." Since then, the Communists-to whom laws are means "whereby those in power suppress or destroy their enemies"-have used the U.N. as a propaganda forum made safe by their veto power while using force everywhere else from Hungary to Tibet. The U.S. meanwhile helped 21 new nations advance to freedom by lawful, orderly means...
...life"; in his own life he treated love like a flower pressed in a book, "an object of science, but . . . dry and sterile." Most startling: "Freud, the great spokesman for sex, was altogether a typical puritan. To him, the aim of life for a civilized person was to suppress his emotional and sexual impulses." And from Freud's own pen is a clear statement that even within a supposedly ideal marriage his sex life was over when...
...attract U.S. visitors "by more decent means-sports, for instance." Castro said that the gambling casinos would be reopened, for tourists only, and "the profits will go to the people." The ban on liquor sales stayed in effect until week's end, but reformist zeal could not entirely suppress the Cuban love of life. As tension gradually eased, the shaggy warriors from the hills began leading awed Havana girls to inspect their free (normally $30-a-day) rooms in the Hilton and Nacional Hotels...