Word: suppressions
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Pusey said radical groups have lately attempted to suppress dissent within their own ranks. "A threat to freedom, motivated by a desire to impose conformity, grows among us," he said...
...Presidents the kind of unfettered war power that European kings enjoyed. Instead, they gave Congress authority to "declare" war, "raise and support armies," make military appropriations for a period no longer than two years, and "provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions." The only exceptions to legislative war authority were intended to be narrow: the framers made the President "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States...
...These bloodsuckers will always use the government to suppress workers and students and grind every last penny out of them." she said...
...Faculty members-most of whom have been active in Harvard's chapter of the New University Conference (NUC), a radical faculty group-sharply criticised the Administration's alleged use of the rights committee to suppress the radical student movement...
...Robert O. Mathews '72 told the crowd that "the government is attempting to suppress all struggles of students and workers," adding that "this repression is a sign not of our weakness but of our strength...