Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time midterms approached, Todd's roommates were pretty worried about him--not so worried that they went to any House advisers, but worried enough so that when Todd's father came out east from the midwestern town in which they lived, Sam went to lunch with him to suggest he send Todd to a psychiatrist...
...twelve policy questions have to be answered before you can come forth with numbers. Do you have a B-l bomber or don't you? Do you have an additional aircraft carrier or don't you? What I will do is go through this stuff and then suggest to the President what I think ought to be done...
...transitional government. The idea is now different. The constitution must first be produced before the agreement. This is because a lot of suspicion attached to the previous agreement. And there, I regret to say, the British, in the main, are responsible for sowing seeds of mistrust and trying to suggest that this government cannot be trusted...
Lindbergh was a thorough professional, but he seemed to suggest a wonderful elan, a sense that anything is possible. That deep urge for individual adventure remains. Sometimes it merely involves robust hobbies - banging down white-water canyons in rubber rafts, hang gliding on the thermal currents, roping up the faces of cliffs. But beyond weekend diversion, there remains a vast array of exploration and adventure. It ranges, says Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell ("Rusty") Schweickart, "from the massive NASA kind of exploration to some intermediary type, such as Jacques Cousteau's efforts, where there is no question that the driving...
Small, image-enhancing fibs like that are a habit of the profession whose code she helped to shape, and let there be no doubt about what that profession was. It was stardom. This is not to say that she was not, on occasion, an effective actress. It is to suggest that acting - like shading her age or flattering her fan clubs with personal attention or fighting the studio bosses for strong roles or making sure her eyebrows were properly plucked - was part of the larger job of being a star...