Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common attribute must be found, I suggest that it is the senator's "all-purpose" pants. No doubt many a professor also wears the same pair to work, to the golf links and to dinner. But here too there is a difference-a difference that will be clear if you apply the adjectives "shiny" and "only" to the pants of the professor...
...distinguished primarily for simple realism, a forthright, almost childlike honesty, a command of ordinary speech, a cool and effortless narrative style, quickened here & there with a mild, understated humor. The battle scenes are so vivid as to suggest Tolstoy's War and Peace, the common soldiers as clearly visualized as Tolstoy's peasants. Unlike Tolstoy's masterpiece, it is all war, not only in the sense that there are no scenes of peaceful life poised against the scenes of war, but in the sense that a knowledge of the meaning of peace is absent from the psychology...
...winter in Manhattan, submitted a visitor's impression to a New York Post reporter. "New York men and women," said she, "are lovelorn, forlorn, and emotionally torn. The men don't understand their women, and the women don't understand their men." Solution? "I suggest that your husbands and wives sit together silently in meditation for at least one hour...
...suggest, however, that in the last paragraph, which proposes an increase in the number of readers so that "the paper could be returned in time for the student to make any justified complaints before his grade is turned in," that you are perhaps laying faulty emphasis. If you admit that the primary purpose of the exam should, in theory at least, be increased learning, then the primary purpose of returning the exam to the student is to give him constructive criticism, and not to achieve a meeting of the minds between student and greater on what a fair mark should...
...world capitals, perhaps the strangest of all meetings takes place each week in a neat, white stucco building on the Parochialstrasse. Here the 130 duly elected representatives of the people of Berlin-the "Stadtparlament" or City Assembly-convene in a third-floor room. Its straight rows of wooden benches suggest a classroom more than a parliament. But to the front, below grey curtains emblazoned with a huge emblem of the bear of Berlin, two large, raised benches rather suggest a courtroom...