Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Didn't he suggest that the conditions at Lichfield were well known to higher headquarters. . . ?" LoBuono: "Something like that...
...prosecutor seized this opening: "Didn't Kilian suggest that the Lichfield policy was dictated by higher authorities?" LoBuono...
Only the practical G.B.S. would think of raising an Eliza Doolittle out of the gutter by correcting her gutturals. Only the paradoxical G.B.S. would suggest how much more insecure she is when bediamonded than when she was bedraggled. Only the perverse G.B.S. would select a gruff, self-centered, confirmed-bachelor of a phonetics professor for a fairy prince. But even Shaw leaves the door open for a fairy-tale ending...
...Aung San (commander of the Burma National Army). Aung San went over to the Japs early in the war, switched back to the British with the tide. But once the Japs had surrendered, Aung San demanded immediate Burmese independence. Hoping to mollify him, Sir Reginald asked Aung San to suggest a few names for a new council. When Aung San listed eleven fervent nationalists, Sir Reginald rejected his list. Thereupon Aung San was elevated to a crest of Burmese popularity and excitement dangerous in a country still full of Japanese arms...
...this sweetly reasonable gesture, the company thought the union was "certainly to be commended." But it went on to suggest that settlement of general wage increases be postponed until production volume, costs and profits were known, until company and union had probed their "joint ability to increase the productivity of employes . . . and our ability to get into full production." The company hoped that Leonard would approach the production problem with the same "constructive thought" he had given to work stoppages...