Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-sought confidence and friendship. Perhaps Nehru was unwilling to repudiate his expressed faith in the Soviet "New Look" of liberalization. Perhaps, in the face of British and French aggression in Egypt, the Premier felt Russian intervention in Hungary was justified, that the Kremlin had the right to suppress the "anarchist" insurrection in an "allied" nation. Nehru himself had explained that there was "mutual killing," that the rebellion had passed the borders of sanity, and the Budapest government had lost all control of the situation...
...Hungary. All the rebels had to do to obtain the withdrawal of Soviet troops, said Shepilov, was lay down their arms. Taxed with continuing to pour troops into Hungary, Marshal Georgy Zhukov roared denial. Said he, with a grand gesture: "There are already enough troops in Hungary to suppress a rebellion and maintain order...
...came the dramatized announcement (with before-and-after movies) from the Mayo Clinic of wondrous results with two hormones: ACTH and cortisone. Hopes for miracle cures soared, along with sales of the hormones. Gradually it has become clear that the hormones do not cure rheumatoid arthritis; they suppress its worst symptoms until-as is the way with this baffling disease-it may subside spontaneously after a few months. Victims of other forms of rheumatism, some of whom thought rheumatism was all one disease, were disappointed when the hormones proved of little use to them. In some patients they produced swift...
...years U.S. citizens have looked with detachment, if not with distaste, on the efforts of colonial powers to suppress local agitations led by fanatic students demanding independence. Last week just such a situation faced the U.S. itself on blood-bought Okinawa, 330 miles south of Japan...
...Pennsylvania small towns whose very ordinary people all seem to lead extraordinary sex lives. O'Hara fans can now get, between hard covers, one of his minor magazine stories that proves that he can exercise his talent with his left hand. It also proves that he can suppress-at least for the space of 64 pages-his obsessive preoccupation with...