Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is one respect," Crockford's conceded, "in which none could suggest that bishops nowadays fail to adorn their office. We refer to robes and external decorations . . . Long-traditional practice and restraint have been largely displaced by sartorial idiosyncrasy. Of copes and mitres we speak no evil, but we think parading in a scarlet robe . . . is ridiculous, if not worse...
...Hollow Triumph? Dr. Kroger did not suggest that because a physician considers a woman patient neurotic he should take upon himself the burden of deciding whether or not she should have a child. Instead, he proposed that the physician, perhaps with the help of a psychiatrist, explain to the patient the emotional meaning of her sterility, and thus help her decide for herself...
Decrying an English writer's concept that the idea of the community is too big and too various to be grasped except theoretically, Conant stressed the importance of a community sentiment. "I suggest," he said, "that in these days when national service has had its impact on the lives of so many young men, we need to do all we can to nourish this feeling for the community among the citizens of this land...
...Greeks had a word for it: "hysterics." They got the word from hystera, meaning womb, and they thought the trouble began when the womb strayed from its proper place. Naturally, they did not see how a man could have hysterics. Not until 2,000 years after Hippocrates did physicians suggest that hysteria (as the disorder came to be known) could occur in men, and even then they admitted it was rare. Now three psychiatrists who worked together in Boston have come to the conclusion that the Greeks were right the first time: what passes for hysteria...
...warmonger. He withdrew his suit after the Mirror agreed to pay full court costs, print a front-page apology, and make a contribution to a charitable fund for elderly people that Churchill named. Said the Mirror's apology: "The statements and pictures referred to never intended to suggest that Mr. Churchill did not dislike war and the possibility of war as much as the defendants do themselves...