Word: repression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corn piled atop corn is hardly more tolerable, as The Troublemaker so successfully demonstrates. Jack's neurotic girlfriend sums it up best when she shows him around her zany apartment, a veritable junkyard of art, and explains to him: "I know it's eclectic, but I tried not to repress anything...
...because the law bans the import of prescription drugs available in France. Frenchmen who have become U.S. citizens are in trouble if they revisit France:* they can be jailed for draft dodging, forced to serve 18 months in the army. In Gaullist France, all tourists are well advised to repress political opinions. Under an 1881 law, insulting heads of state, even in whispered tones, is punishable by up to a year's imprisonment and a $60,000 fine...
Watching the crowds jostling through the Met's entrance last week, Director James J. Rorimer, 59, could not repress a small sigh for the bygone days when museum corridors contained echoes rather than crocodiles of squealing children. "My ivory tower is no more," he said. In the decade of Rorimer's stewardship at the Met, annual attendance has skyrocketed from 2,830,000 to nearly 6,000,000, rising more rapidly than that of any other major U.S. museum. Over the Washington's Birthday weekend, the Met counted a record of 59,099 admissions during Sunday...
...still had Katanga, and without the political support of that ore-packed province the Congo is just another bleak, hopeless stretch of African bush. It was clear that Cyrille Adoula's government could not repress the Communist-backed revolts flaming in three provinces when Tshombe finally returned. Why not let him take a crack at forming a "government of national reconciliation...
Especially in describing ancillary incidents and fringe characters, the author cannot repress a cheeky schoolboy's urge to shock the grownups. He succeeds...