Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would even suggest a name: the Bolivar Squadron...
...shortage of machinery is holding down the production of the soybeans you suggest we might be using...
...other members of the squadron, play their parts manfully, for all they are worth. John Wayne is a rudimentary actor, but he has the look and bearing, unusual in his trade, of a capable human male. As the squadron commander, he is able to make his habitual inarticulateness suggest the uncommunicative competence that men expect in their leaders. Anna Lee, after three sleepless nights, is still able to suggest a Beautyrest. Too many Japanese pilots get the same wound, by which they bleed photogenically at the mouth. But when the dragon-headed planes are off the ground, and fighting, Flying...
Last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who is by no means a friend of Fiorello LaGuardia, seized this climactic outburst to suggest that the Mayor needs a psychoanalyst. "The Little Flower," wrote Pegler, "has been going haywire lately. . . . He owes his job to the decent press of New York, which he hates because he can't suppress news of his own absurdities. . . . The papers have tried to cover up his alarming instability...
Lana Turner is a superbly tough and toothsome foil for Mr. Gable's masterful routines. She can so tilt her chin that, in any posture, she suggests that she is looking up from a pillow. Clark Gable has had better parts before. But in his closing speech on Bataan, he develops real heat and resonance that suggest a rather moving transition from the celluloid fictions which, for years, he has made likable, into facts which, for the duration, will be his obscure, more serious business...