Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ashamed of being poor, of being too poor to shoulder the white man's burden or to compete with first-class powers in providing aid for uncommitted countries." Best of all, when a second-class nation needs help, it can declare itself uncommitted: "Response is prompt. The West suggest a loan of countless dollars repayable over two thousand years: the East offer the free labor of twenty million skilled Siberians. Second-class powers can hardly wait for China to become fully first-class. Three sources of foreign aid are better than...
...booksellers, reviewers, radio-and newsmen on present-day living conditions. Some of the replies dealt with life in general, but many of the answering bookstore owners and employees took the question personally, volubly commented on their own lives. The answers, mostly gloomy, with interludes of hectic gaiety, seemed to suggest that a great many booksellers are on the verge of a crackup. Samples...
...Edna Ferber is still not over the bestseller habit, even though her books relentlessly suggest that bestsellers do not make the best reading. She has, as a critic once said of Edmund Wilson, "pencil, pad and purpose." Six years ago Novelist Ferber worked up some travel notes and impressions into Giant (TIME, Sept. 29, 1952), a novel about Texas that was as close to the mark as a tenderfoot's lariat, but waspish enough to infuriate Texans and amuse the citizens of the other 47 states. After Texas what? Alaska, naturally, and it is a safe bet that Edna...
...enlarge Harvard by a thousand, and if either the money or the space for additional Houses and dormitories cannot be found, then one easy answer would be to expand the number of commuting students. But, I neither predict nor recommend this. All I was trying to do was to suggest various theoretical possibilities... W. J. Bender, Dean of Admissions...
...British] suckers of blood and squeezers of nationals' lands are determined to impose their policy of overlordship on East, South and Central Africa. The British bwana wants all people who are not white to be slaves." ¶"We would be glad to hear Mr. Eisenhower suggest to the Soviet Union that it join hands with the Americans to fight imperialism. Mr. Eisenhower could not do so because America also is now a state which wishes to have colonies, to oppress and exploit...