Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masculine Pentagon world, McElroy is a man's man: he can be a two-fisted bourbon drinker, barely manages to suppress a lifelong passion for shooting craps, has a short-fuse temper and can use four-letter language that does not spell TIDE. As Defense Secretary he must walk the tightrope between sufficient defense and national extravagance; McElroy's own nature is such that he could, without batting an eye, decide to spend $30 million for Procter & Gamble to buy Clorox, yet at home in Cincinnati he long kept close personal tabs on the amount of gasoline...
...week earlier, Dr. Hu Shih, modern China's most eminent philosopher and most respected scholar, speaking for Nationalist China at the U.N. for the first time since 1945, documented some of the details of last summer's student revolt that the regime had tried hard to suppress. It began, said Dr. Hu Shih, with a meeting of 8,000 students at Peking University, where 19 student leaders openly attacked the Communists' suppression of freedom, spread when the leaders launched a periodical calling on students all over the country to the fight. Hu Shih quoted...
Alec Guiness plays a shy and quiet impoverished chemist who invents an indestructible and soil-proof fabric on the sly and manages to cause no small furor in the ranks of British industry and labor, as they try to suppress the invention, the first fearful of depleting the business, the second of losing their jobs. Under all the comic routine is couched quite a powerful satire of the illogical complexities of the modern economy, quite beyond the good will of the participants. Mr. Guiness is at at his very best, never overplaying but by quietly alternating shy smiles...
...People want to know whether they are eating themselves into premature heart disease!" said the report. "On the one hand, some scientists have taken uncompromising stands based on evidence that does not stand up under critical examination; on the other, certain industrial groups appear to believe they can suppress the problem by advertising campaigns" (see BUSINESS...
...Roof. Next, Namboodiripad & Co. set out to cut down the authority of the Kerala state police force. "The police," said Namboodiripad, "have always been used to suppress mass movements of workers and peasants." He ordered them to stand on the sidelines except in cases of "murder, rape, arson or assault...