Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nobility of politics at most levels are empty phrases? It is not the lower order of the.genus pol, but it is the fault of you the people. Your public servants serve you right. Indeed, often they serve you better than your apathy and your indifference deserve, but I suggest that there is always time to repent and amend your ways...
...first post-office cats were hired in 1868 when London Postmaster Frederick-Roger Jackson, worried over "very serious destruction and mutilation of paid money orders," became "emboldened to suggest that three cats be acquired to deal with mice in my department." The postmaster general reluctantly agreed to lay on the new civil servants at an allowance of one shilling weekly for all three but only on condition that "if mice be not reduced in number at the termination of six months, a portion of this allowance may be stopped...
...REFERENCE EDNA FERBER'S DESIGNATION OF TEXAS MALES AS BRAGGARTS WHO STOLE TEXAS FROM THE MEXICANS, I SUGGEST THAT TIME'S BOOKS EDITOR TRY TO BE IMPARTIAL TO THE EXTENT OF COMPILING THE NUMBER OF CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR WON IN WORLD WAR II BY TEXANS SERVING IN THE ARMY, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS AS AGAINST THE GREATEST NUMBER WON BY SERVICEMEN FROM OTHER HIGH REGISTERING STATES...
...Joseph Stalin, said TIME, "is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness. He is a silent man, not given to speechifying; and behind his mask lies a singular determination...
...Alberto Giacometti (TIME, July 2, 1951) and Britain's Francis Bacon. The much-admired decorative style of the Matisses is not for Paddy Swift. "Art," he thinks, "is obviously capable of expressing something more closely related to life than these elegant designs." His main idea is to suggest the tensions he finds in life. "I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension-tension is the only word for it-can be painted...