Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps to provide a better "text" about himself, but also to contribute a chapter to the history of American journalism, Luce commissioned a history of Time Inc. In 1964, three years before he died, he charged the author "to be candid, truthful, and to suppress nothing relevant or essential to the narrative." The result is TIME INC. The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise, 1923-1941 (Atheneum; $10). Can the account of a company be intimate? It seems like a contradiction in terms, but readers may decide that this book is indeed reasonably intimate...
...right of some students to belong to ROTC, is to deny their right, their freedom, to believe as they want, and feel they must; it is to deny them the right to support U.S. involvement in Vietnam. This negation of freedom puts SDS in the position of advocating suppression. The SDS should remember that no matter what moral superiority they claim, they have no more right to suppress freedom than the U.S. government...
...problem of the expansion of slavery before the Civil War. Under Douglas's plan, the white residents of the territorial areas (Nebraska and Kansas) would vote to decide whether slavery would be legal when the territories attained statehood. For moral men, there can be no "right" to suppress people fighting for social, political, and economic freedom, just as there is no "right" to enslave other...
...Mother seeks medical help, the doctor is soon exasperated as the little monster upsets ashtrays, spins the examining stool, snaps the tongue depressors, and tries to grab the guppies in the fish tank. At such moments, says California's Dr. Daniel M. Martin, "it behooves the doctor to suppress that 'urge to kill' look in his eyes...
...Coop has been charged with trying to suppress union organization among its employees, yet there seems little documented evidence of this. Presently two unions have contracts with the Coop. The tailors belong to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and Coop drivers belong to the Teamsters Union Local 504. Three years ago the Teamsters tried to organize the sales clerks, but the movement died from lack of interest, not from any attempt by management to chill unionism...