Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comment that Father Joseph F. Cantillon (who thinks modern woman has "sold out to commercialism") is typical of a good cross section of teaching Jesuits. They must be misogynists at heart, always emphasizing the "sanctity of woman's body" but never the integrity of her mind ... I would suggest some honest soul-searching for these unrealistic fathers, and orchids to Father Gerard Murphy and the increasing number of his prototypes among the younger Jesuits...
...second Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, hesitated hardly at all in picking Delegate George Washington to command the American army. Delegate John Hancock nursed improbable dreams of military glory for himself, but Massachusetts, which had started the war, dared not suggest one of its own for high command lest the rest of the colonies touchily let Massachusetts try to finish the war, too. Washington was a Virginian, and thus politically eligible; he had commanded troops, and furthermore he looked like a general...
...Kettering could say was to suggest a test. although the weight of engineering argument was against him. The self-starter worked beautifully, and with it the industry passed the greatest roadblock in automotive progress since the first car was invented...
...hell of a lousy politician" [TIME, June i]. We have so many expert politicians now sitting on their fat rumps, afraid to stand up and legislate for the taxpayer, they can't understand the logic of a man like Wilson when he wants to save or suggest ways of saving our resources by running his department as he would run a successful business . . . [Wilson] is building his organization with men of proven ability, not vote-getting politicians. Of course, that makes him a lousy politician -more power...
Blanchard, a refugee from Gardner, Mass., keeps his listeners occupied with zany projects. He does not openly suggest green hair or cat's whiskers, which seem to come naturally to his audience. He. has kept them busy mailing him dirt to "help fill up San Francisco Bay," or sending in empty orange juice cans to be used in building a 60-foot antenna. Twenty-five bottle caps earned a listener an "I Dread Red" card, and a usable joke is repaid with an "I Write for CBS" certificate. The jokes are frequently such morbid items as the jingle about...