Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reality, Ireland has a glorious history and its people possess a fighting spir it that centuries of unrelenting persecution by Britain could not suppress...
...CAMPUS UNREST. Congressmen have readied a spate of bills to suppress campus disorder-and thus caused a fast turnaround by the Administration. As recently as mid-May, Attorney General John Mitchell assured Congress that there was no need for any such new measures. Yet last week, the White House put out word that it was considering legislation extending to federal courts the power to issue injunctions preventing students from disrupting classes. The aim is to head off more stringent legislation originating in Congress...
...Clarence Brandenburg was shown on television in Ku Klux Klan regalia, haranguing his cronies. "The nigger should be returned to Africa, the Jew returned to Israel," said Brandenburg. "If our President, our Congress, our Supreme Court continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race, it's possible that there might have to be some revengence [sic] taken." Convicted of violating Ohio's criminal-syndicalism law by "advocating violence as a means to accomplish social reform," Brandenburg appealed to the state's highest court, but his plea was rejected on the grounds that "no substantial constitutional question exists...
...than in the capital. Then, 29 hours before Rocky was to have landed at Caracas' Maiquetía airport, the Venezuelan government asked for a postponement of the visit-most likely because President Rafael Caldera does not want to blemish his domestic "pacification program" by being forced to suppress possible demonstrations...
...Real. Some people who evince little or no vocal or visible reaction when they are obviously hurt say they have a high threshold for pain. Many more, who do not try to suppress their feelings, admit to having a low threshold. There is no physiological evidence of any differences in the pain sensors and therefore in the basic pain sensations in these two groups. Whatever differences there are apparently exist entirely in the emotional reactions. These also vary with cultural attitudes. The stoicism of the American Indian and the Chinese is proverbial, although ethnic variations in sensitivity have not been...