Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimean Warning. They had little choice. Three weeks earlier, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev had summoned the Czechoslovak leaders to the Crimea, where he delivered a grim warning: If the Czechoslovaks themselves did not suppress the protests, the Soviets would send in their tanks to crush the demonstrators. As the country marked its "Day of Shame," the Soviets kept their 100,000 occupation troops well out of sight, though they were poised to strike in the event the demonstrations got out of control. There were even rumors that archconservative elements in the Czechoslovak party might provoke serious outbursts in order...
...belief ..that the principal purpose of the Dean's letter is unrelated to any concern for either my professional abilities as an economist or my ability to engage in mutually beneficial exchange with students. I see his action as part of the effort being made to suppress political action of the sort which took place here in April...
...Harris, whose husband had been a Navy pilot, was emotionally blocked until she participated in a 14-hour marathon session. "When I left it," she recalls, "I felt like somebody had just peeled all the skin off my body. Everything was open." No attempt is made to curtail or suppress normal mourning. As they progress, the widows begin to confront the emotionally exhausting problem of rebuilding their social and sexual lives. At first, most are unable to consider remarrying, but they eventually come to see themselves as available single women, although with special memories and, often, children...
...with the U.A.R. President. When a research employee was jailed for reporting critically on Egypt's economy, Heikal not only got the man freed and the report released but also forced Intelligence Chief Amin Huweidi to write a letter-to-the-editor explaining why he had tried to suppress the report in the first place. Lamented Huweidi later: "Centers of power are supposed to have been abolished, but one big power center obviously remains." Even Heikal's detractors readily concede that next to Nasser himself, Heikal is the most powerful man in Egypt today...
...investigators found that calm, older women, who seemed most deeply attached to their relatives or rooted to military routines, were often the most likely to give in to sadness and discouragement when their husbands left. Such wives, says Medical Corps Psychiatrist Laurence A. Cove, often seemed to try to suppress their anxieties, sometimes by escapist "thinking about how good the next assignment would be." By contrast, several "unhappy and emotionally delicate" wives developed independent activities and a new sense of self-fulfillment in their spouses' absence. Frequently they were able to give healthy vent to their anger...