Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roger D. Fisher '43, professor of Law, told an International Law Society forum that "neither protagonist can suggest the stop of the fighting as it would result in a high political loss. Rather a third party must intervene...
...view of this, a defense of Merle Haggard runs two risks. First of all, one doesn't want to be labelled a victim of some twisted pop decadence, a sort of latent Alice Cooper fanatic who took a wrong turn. Even worse, the whole thing threatens to suggest the let's-sit-down- and-rub-shoulders-with-the-truckdrivers (they're so real) syndrome...
...estimated 1 million tourists who will be drawn yearly to the exhibition of Kennedy's magic and splendor displayed in the imposing library-museum. The resulting traffic and parking problems, as well as the economic metamorphosis already evident a year before the scheduled groundbreaking, are enough to suggest that the library should find a home away from this crowed area...
Many scientists have since attributed the phenomenon to a comet head that exploded in the air before hitting the earth. Others suggest that a stray clump of antimatter from elsewhere in the universe found its way to earth and completely annihilated itself and an equivalent amount of terrestrial matter, thus releasing an enormous blast of energy...
Jackson and Ryan offer a concrete check for their fantastic suggestion. Witnesses to the Tunguska blast indicated that whatever caused it streaked toward the earth at an angle of 30° from the horizon. If the object was actually a black hole, it would have easily penetrated the earth in an almost straight line and emerged eight minutes later on the other side, about 1,000 miles east of Nova Scotia, triggering underwater and atmospheric shock waves and drawing off a thin, geyser-like column of water as it flew into space. Jackson and Ryan suggest that their theory...