Word: suppressive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...done time for killing his cheating wife and has taken this job only because it is the closest thing to police work the parole board will allow. Portrayed by Burt Lancaster -who is turning into an attractive, hard-working actor as superstardom fades-he is a functionary trying to suppress his old hunter's instincts in order to keep his job security intact...
Nader discussed the potential hazards of using nuclear reactors to produce electricity, and said that the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) has been attempting to suppress reports that indicate that nuclear power plants are unsafe...
...million Jews in the two countries of their impending destruction. But--in one of the great tragedies of the Second World War and one of the few cases of clear-cut collaboration between the Nazis and the Jews--the Zionist leaders failed to warn the victims and attempted to suppress Vrba's report. In return for this service, Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of the deportation process, allowed about 1600 people, largely wealthy Jews, relatives of the Zionist leaders or prominent Zionists, to flee to Switzerland. The result of this agreement was the death of nearly half a million Hungarian...
...would be unexceptionable in most cases, raises its own problem in the very special circumstance of Watergate. This unique scandal is far more than a criminal proceeding. It has involved not powerless defendants but some of the nation's most influential officials. There have been repeated attempts to suppress evidence, minimize the case's importance, deflect guilt and hide behind the shibboleth of national security. These factors at first inhibited the press. Now the urge is to print everything obtainable in the belief that self-censorship would be itself a kind of coverup. In this atmosphere, there will...
Shockley did have at least one bright spot in his week, however, when the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued a statement criticizing "attempts to suppress unpopular opinions...