Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign ministers' conference and summit meeting proposals: against the rigid rigidity of Mao and the inflexible inflexibility of Khrushchev, our flexible rigidity cannot win. May I suggest that we switch to rigid flexibility...
...going to the mob's weddings, wakes and funerals, Smith says. "I get a good idea of who's in the mob and whom they're dealing with, and what's new." Other reporters, possibly in envy, suggest that this kind of intimate coverage can only goad gangland into throwing something more substantial than Joey Glimco's cud. But big (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect...
...fine print of the epochal NATO Treaty signed by twelve nations in Washington in 1949, was the provision that any NATO member could come back in ten years to suggest changes in the treaty structure. Last week, as the NATO Council got together in conference rooms and on the flag-banked platform of Washington's Departmental Auditorium, nobody suggested that a single comma of the original treaty ought to be changed...
Alcorn knew what to do. Said he: "Mr. President, I strongly suggest you make a speech on Labor Day in which you recall the Congress and promise to keep the Congress in session until adequate labor-reform legislation is passed. The country wants it; the rank and file of labor wants it. It will help the country. And it certainly will help our party...
...political climate in which we live, no church should tell its members whom to vote for, or interfere in political campaigns, or suggest reasons of a purely personal kind for preferring one candidate over another," said Cardinal Gushing, who made his Kennedy preference clear last month. "I cannot see, for example, how anyone would vote for a candidate for public office merely because of his religion, even if the candidate was noted for his personal piety...