Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even if a picture eloquently argues a distasteful point, such as the glory of the Klan, it neither coerces moviegoers nor deprives them of any of their rights. The broader and narrower views of tolerance clash only when professional groups and public officials attempt unjustifiably to use one to crush the other, as the NAACP, the Equal Rights Society, and City Censor Milliken are doing...
...what to do. Goebbels persuasively cooed that Hitler was still alive, reached for the phone, handed it to Remer. "Do you recognize my voice?" asked Adolf Hitler. "Jawohl, mein Führer," quavered Remer-and his mind was made up. Hitler empowered Remer to act in his behalf to crush the plot and supersede all officers. By evening, the Nazis again gripped Berlin...
Defense in Depth. In Baltimore, when a fire broke out in the Roosevelt movie theater, customers who wanted refunds formed such a crush around the boxoffice that firemen had to hose them aside before they could fight the fire...
...they are probably less aware of a very similar plight enmeshing a far less sympathetic figure, Newbold Morris who has been tied down by a bevy of Congressmen ever since he first trumpeted his President blessed intention to crush governmental corruption. These Congressmen have been telling him a long dull story about a handful of war surplus tankers whose trails were more tortuous than any Handle and Gristle have yet negotiated...
Thirdly, the Army does not crush Independent thinking--in fact the U.S. Army is noted for the stress it puts or initiative. Not is evasion of voluntary duties peculiar to soldiers. Moreover, two years of military service is not, and in this country never has been, enough to reduce American youth to the status of automations. Many young draftees fought three or four years during the last World War, and there have been no indications that they have become unduly discipline-minded...