Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there much basis for argument that the Soviets felt free to act because the U.S. is tied down in Asia. The U.S. had no such preoccupation in 1956 when the Russians moved with far greater savagery to suppress the Hungarian uprising. And the involvement in Viet Nam was insignificant in 1962, when the Russians sanctioned erection of the Berlin Wall. In all three cases, the only kind of effective U.S. response would have involved the threat of large-scale military action?and the probability of World War III. Few would argue that the stakes were worth...
...Less Suppression. Denver, where the first such operation was performed in March 1963 by the University of Colorado's Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, remains the liver-transplant capital of the world, with six recipients surviving. The early operations five years ago, says Starzl, were tragic. Although surgeons were sure that the procedure would work, the longest survival among the first patients was 23 days. In most cases, death resulted from infection, to which the patients were especially susceptible because of generous use of drugs to suppress the mechanism by which the body rejects foreign protein...
What is ALG? It is the nearest thing to a natural medication yet found to suppress the mechanism by which the body seeks to reject any foreign protein implanted in it. By that mechanism, the human system produces antibodies that attack the proteins in the transplants. The antibodies are made or transported by white blood cells, or lymphocytes, which multiply astronomically in the presence of foreign tissue...
...could find more than lukewarm approval in the ghetto today?so deep are the enmities, so profound the suspicions of the fuzz or, sometimes, "Chuck,"* The very presence of cops in the slums, many Negro militants maintain, represents society's goal to protect the white man's property and suppress the black man's right...
...time a couple applies for a license and the marriage, in order to discourage hasty unions. That is hardly likely to take hold everywhere in the Soviet Union, as is illustrated by one local problem brought out in recent press discussions: the government has so far been unable to suppress the mating habits of males in the Caucasus region, who woo their brides by abducting and raping them...