Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compelling necessity of this process. Any danger to mankind lies in the destructive use of discoveries which could have been used for its benefit. It does not lie in the discoveries themselves, least of all in the possibility that they may get physically out of control as you suggest in your article...
Since nominations for Man of the Year are now open, may I suggest that this year, you should not be nominating Man of the Year, but instead, Men of the Year. I refer to G.I. Joes, the soldiers, sailors and marines, who in my opinion have more than merited the title Men of the Year...
...London, men & women of 43 United Nations gathered to discuss how education could serve peace. They did not even hope to find all the answers, but they had some modest ambitions. They heard their presiding officer, Britain's fiery little Minister of Education "Red Ellen" Wilkinson, suggest that if England and France could just agree on how to describe the Battle of Waterloo in their history books, it would help. They heard Clement Attlee's worthy bromides: "In your hands rests here and now the opportunity of establishing a common front against ignorance...
...long and indignant letter to theUnited Steelworkers, Vice President John Stephens of the U.S. Steel Corp. turned down the union's demand for a $2-a-day increase, claiming that the company was already selling many products below cost, that it was "sheer nonsense" to suggest that the company could absorb a higher wage level without raising prices. Thereupon the Steelworkers' Philip Murray accused the steel industry of "arrogance," called for a strike vote among 640,000 employes of 766 companies...
Three Congressional Committees last week stewed over the deal. Some Congressmen thought it outrageous to suggest that the Government guarantee markets against private competition. Then President Truman joined in: he did not think subsidies for surplus plants were a good idea either...