Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOVERNMENT has finally dropped its six-month long effort to suppress Howard Morland's "The H-Bomb Secret," and the article will appear in The Progressive's next issue. It's about time. The court based its prior restraint injunction on specious "national security" grounds; as the government has admitted, and as Morland had contended all along, the supposedly "secret restricted" information contained in the article had been available to the public from a variety of unclassified sources, including several public libraries, scientific journals and the current edition of the Encyclopedia Americana...
...weaker maple trees are beginning to turn orange. The occasion is the Fourth International Conference on Computers and-what is this?-the Humanities. Is the conference title a self-contradiction, like "fresh-frozen" or "Young Republican"? The observer, a humanist in a dry season, resolutely programs himself to suppress his real attitude toward computers, which is a feeling of smugness and superiority masking a feeling of inferiority and hysteria. This dates from an episode ten years ago when he was living in Salzburg, Austria, and a computer sent all of his Diners' Club bills by surface mail to Salisbury...
...early presence on the scene is also much ado about nothing. Paradoxically, the presidential politicking season lengthens while voter interest declines. Much of the old gusto for hitting the campaign trail-which candidates sometimes had to feign and political junkies in the press corps sometimes had to suppress-has disappeared. It's now a long grind...
...Lawrence linked tire tracks and footprints to the drug cache, the airplane flying that night, and other trucks used for hauling contraband. Two of the smugglers were prominent Tucson restaurant owners, Marc and Mike Norman. When the case went to court, a judge had quashed a defense motion to suppress evidence by writing: "These defendants were done in by a skilled and experienced tracker...
...people that the real villains in this inflation story are the businessmen who are raising their prices and the labor unions that are raising wages. When any Government tries to eliminate inflation by controlling wages and prices, what it is really doing is asking all of us to suppress the bad news that it has printed too much money. The reason we have inflation is that since 1967 the Government has caused the money supply to grow three times as fast as the goods and services that can be bought with...