Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assassination plot. Gloating over their gruesome triumph, the conspirators, based in Damascus, told the press that "it is our pleasure to Communicate to you our success in implementing the death sentence towards a criminal and a traitor." Sartawi died because he had the guts (or perhaps the foolhardiness) to suggest that his organization recognize and come to grips with a political entity that will always be firmly rooted in the Middle East-the state of Israel...
NOEL COWARD, however, belongs anywhere but in People. His plays combine wry, sophisticated wit, elegant characters and light, measured farce. Coward relies on the English language--not only what words express clearly and openly, but also what they hide and subtly suggest. A line as unpromising as "don't quibble. Sybil" conveys much with its brevity, sound and the actor's accompanying expressions and pauses...
...degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1954, going on to speculate prosperously in land. He speaks wistfully of a period, long ago, when he ran through his money in the sporting houses of Havana. Laying a finger alongside a nose whose veins suggest some past abuse, he allows: "One time, I drank myself broke...
...neck. "There's no sun in the legislature," he explains. "You can't tell where you're going." In this state, as in so many others, the old majestic capitol building has been abandoned by the legislature for a new seat of government that does not suggest democracy so much as cubism. Thus the compass may sound loony but is, in fact, practical...
...developments suggest that Evren may be easing the pressure on his countrymen. Last week a military prosecutor reduced the charges against Publisher Nadi to "encouraging people to act against the law," and asked for a prison term of 2½ instead of six years. The military court trying Actress Yenersu referred the case to a civil tribunal, which is likely to be more lenient. Evren, it seems, is learning that respect for civil liberties is a cornerstone of democracy...