Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miller, 24, became the first person to be convicted under a new law that makes card burning punishable by a $10,000 fine or five years' imprisonment, or both. When Miller appealed his suspended three-year sentence, he argued that Congress had enacted the law deliberately to suppress dissent. Indeed, the bill's proponents made no secret of the fact that it was aimed at "beatniks"-meaning critics of the U.S. war effort in Viet...
This relationship cast Wilson's father as God, and demanded that the son view himself as Christ, the son of God -or so say Freud and Bullitt. At the same time, this too-deep devotion to his father caused young Tommy Wilson to suppress the aggressive instincts that a growing boy normally directs against his male parent. The authors state flatly that Wilson "never had a fist fight in his life" and did not participate in sports or games of any kind, although they contradict themselves later. Bullitt and Freud insist that Wilson grew up virtually shorn...
...contributors evoke that wondrous green time before the disciplinarians of life-and of verse-suppress the poet that probably lurks in most people...
...their chests. Most were irritated that they are neither consulted nor informed about federal programs that affect their states. At the press conference, Johnson pooh-poohed any talk that there was a critical chasm between him and the Governors. But, he added: "We Democrats have never been known to suppress our differences. We do have different viewpoints on different programs. They have made that abundantly clear in their respective states. I made it abundantly clear that I ran on a platform that contained my commitments." As a result of the gripe session, he said, he would see to it that...
...also probably the only autobiography in which the author genuinely tried to suppress his identity. Small wonder. This fellow not only told all but did all. He had a lifelong devotion to the female pudenda. He was a mountaineer of the mons Veneris. Why? Well, because it was there. No rational or speculative explanation can serve otherwise to explain his enormous obsession. His book illustrates the Hegelian principle that quantity becomes quality. Art emerges from arithmetic: it could have been written by a computer fed to repletion by a sex-crazed programmer...