Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulgaria was slated for a bigger role. Hungarian sources reported that Premier Filoff had hurried to a Berchtesgaden session with Adolf Hitler; he may also have seen his old acquaintance, Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. No one doubted that he would get Gestapo support to suppress Bulgaria's underground, anti-German, patriotic front. What the Führer needed above all was more manpower, more help from Bulgaria's Army to guard against a possible Turkish thrust and to stiffen Italian garrisons in Greece...
...Neither quinine nor atabrine will suppress all infections. Among British forces near Panafrica's stations, about 30% of those on 0.3 gr. of quinine hydrochloride daily, and 23% of those taking 0.4 gr. of atabrine dihydrochloride weekly, developed clinical malaria (incidentally, "no toxic effects from atabrine were noted"). Panafrica had to abandon Accra, a bad malaria spot on Africa's Gold Coast. In spite of quinine, in about two months 46 out of 284 men occupying partially screened quarters had malaria...
...Plainly a community may not suppress, or the state tax, the dissemination of views which are unpopular, annoying or distasteful. If that device were ever sanctioned there would have been forged a ready instrument for the suppression of the faith which any minority cherishes but which does not happen to be in favor. That would be a complete repudiation of the philosophy of the Bill of Rights...
Poet William Rose Benét and Authoress Marcia Davenport said they had read the novel in galley proofs, and denounced the "political" campaign. In no time at all the Communist drive to suppress The Fifth Seal had turned into a fine publicity boom...
Burning the State Department's hands since mid-March has been a voluminous report on working conditions in Bolivia. In Washington and La Paz, officials debated whether to suppress it or release it, and perhaps bring down a torrent of criticism on 1) Bolivia, and 2) Tin King Simon I. Patino, whose miners precipitated the whole business by striking four months ago (TIME...