Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torera from Texas, who quit school to assassinate an undersized bull in a Mexican bull ring, I suggest a job in an abattoir. Ole, huera...
...snickersnee between the shoulders of an animal called (jokingly?) a bull . . . In Wyoming, such a pore little critter, although admittedly a male, wouldn't be classed as a bull but as a tail-end yearlin'. Lack of size and length of horns denote immaturity. His contours suggest he was dogied while very young. Quite possibly he was a convalescent from aftosa; certainly his home range has had a long dry spell. The carcass must have been quite inferior carne. But for Miss McCormick, it probably will serve as a steppingstone to higher things-such as a TV career...
...Francis' well-run operating room. The main exception was that the anesthesia machine itself had not been grounded, and on this, some experts violently disagree with the bureau: grounding the machine, they say, may make it behave like a lightning rod. There was nothing to suggest that the Evanston accident had been caused by a spark outside the machine. The explosion had been inside it, and the best evidence was that the spark originated there, too-probably in a valve...
...Without in the least minimizing the significance of elementary education," Conant said, "I suggest that our most serious problems will arise when the secondary schools begin to feel the impact of the increased birth rate...
Secondly, the articles mainly concern pacifist organizations operating in the early forties when pacifism did not automatically suggest communism, as it does today. Readers of the Philbrick series, most of whom have already blurred the distinction between pacifism and sedition, can hardly be expected to remember that the distinction existed in even clearer terms during the early forties. Those who were members of these groups may not have wished to overthrow the government then; they may not wish to overthrow it now, and they may not even be pacifists now. Despite all these possibilities, they will be associated with sedition...