Word: suppressing
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...block and finding ways of getting away from his desk whenever he can. On a State Department-sponsored junket to communist Prague in the mid-1980s, Bech meets dissident Czech writers and begins to envy them for living in a place where literature is considered important enough to suppress...
...People did what they were supposed to do, not what they deeply, truly needed to. It was a time of confinement: those wire bras were a chastity belt for bosoms. Haircuts were part of the hypocrisy--boys couldn't hide their ears, but they could, had to, suppress their liveliest instincts. It was the long night of the living dead...
Although such attempts to suppress health care work in the region heightened the risk involved, Jimnez continued to improve access to health care while searching for her husband...
...regardless of the official ban, at least a dozen publishing houses are cranking out translated copies, which are selling like scallion buns on the street. Chinese authorities may find it hard to suppress that entrepreneurial spirit, but the ban could be just the smoking gun Dan Burton needs to prove collusion between Beijing and the Clinton White House...
...raises Lazarus from the dead and predicts his own betrayal at the Last Supper. ("He's drunk, guys," says an Apostle. "It's the wine talking.") If the point is to make Jesus' teachings live for a contemporary audience, activist Christians should be hailing this play, not trying to suppress...