Word: suppressibles
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...obvious danger in Honduras' new antiguerrilla campaign is that Suazo Cordova and Alvarez will seek to suppress subversion too zealously while trampling on the citizenry. Some Hondurans are already alarmed at Decree 33, an antiterrorist law that Suazo Córdova has pushed through the National Assembly. A countervailing danger is that antiguerrilla efforts by the 14,000-member Honduran armed forces will prove ineffective, leading to an increase in guerrilla activities within the country. "Honduras is poor," notes one prominent diplomat in Tegucigalpa. "If [its leaders] want to play this game, they'd better be damn sure...
...much could the U.S. corporations possibly have helped Blacks in S.A. in the over 30 years of apartheid? Clearly Putnam must be referring to fears that the government of S.A. would collapse without U.S. business, taxes, technology, loans, capital equipment and military goods and supervision to suppress growing Black resistance...
Militant antipapal Protestants staged their demonstrations, but they seemed eerily irrelevant in the glow of celebration and history that emanated from the Pope. Uniformed police and plainclothes agents were out in force to suppress any mob trouble, but they were never put to the test. In Liverpool, where police were ready for the worst, the Orange Order, a group of bitter opponents of the papal visit, launched no demonstrations...
...world's population, including one out of seven Americans. There are dozens of helpful drugs on the market, as well as countless quack remedies ranging from copper bracelets to snake venom. Aspirin, however, remains the treatment of choice. The trouble is that in order to suppress inflammation as well as pain, aspirin often must be taken in megadoses-15 to 20 tablets a day. At such levels, it can cause stomach distress, ulcers and hemorrhaging. And so, spurred by a market that grows by a million persons a year in the U.S. alone, pharmacologists keep searching for a better...
...marked change in the way people look at thesauruses," says St. Martin's President Tom McCormack. "Originally they were illustrative; they just listed synonyms. Now they are normative, because people use the thesaurus to find the words they ought to be using." When asked which words he might suppress, McCormack looked up "woman" in his desktop U.S. edition. "Ah hah," he said, "here's 'broad.' I'd want to get that out. And 'wench.' And here's one that's out of the question - 'bit of fluff.' " But what...