Word: repression
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...mentioning his liaisons to a policeman while reporting a burglary at his home, he abruptly found himself transformed from victim to accused criminal. In a Britain that had not yet legalized homosexual relations between consenting adults, the resulting trial cost him his reputation, his work, even his masculinity: to repress Turing's sexual urges, a judge ordered him treated with female hormones. He was subsisting on university research in 1954 when, in a bizarre echo of a favorite movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he killed himself by eating an apple soaked with cyanide...
centralization of power, to "maintain the control over violence that is essential to carry through major reforms." (p. 20) Huntington argued that some form of "enlightened despotism" might help reduce white opposition to change in South Africa, but even more firmly, he suggested the government should repress three types of violence: revolutionary, spontaneous and backlash. "No reform occurs without violence...Within limits reform and repression may proceed hand-in hand...The government that is too weak to monopolize counter-revolutionary repression is also too weak to inaugurate counter-revolutionary reform...
...Sandinistas are in charge to stay, and our officials are unhappy, fearing that the Nicaraguan government will repress its people and subvert its neighbors. Only two options remain: either invade or let the Sandinistas do what they will. Everything else we can do we already have done...
Motivation and psychological depth, emotion and dramatic intensity--these were qualities Balanchine attempted to repress in his dancers and in his ballets. He sought to replace personality with his abstract ideal of physical movement...
Implicit in this attitude lies the idea that male sexuality is natural while female sexuality is dirty. Any time a woman fails to repress that sexuality she is putting candy in front of a baby and must accept the consequences. Perhaps that is why the press continually harps on Chambers' "charming good-looks." Overcome by this handsome young man, Ms. Levin simply lost control and followed Chambers to the park, sealing her own fate...