Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next six months or so, visiting politicians will shake hands around town and outraged public sentiment will force one or two of these politicians to look into what's going on, I mean really going on, in Springhill. Some will suggest greater safety precautions; some will suggest that the town close up, go away and forget its troubles. But Springhill won't close up, go away and forget because things could scarcely get much worse. Canadians all over are proud of the people of Springhill because the face of the Canadian people is concave, which is good for taking punches...
...year Wolfe received his master's degree. While waiting in Cambridge for Commencement, he was called home to the death-bed of his father. He returned to Harvard the following September convinced of the dramatic possibilities of the entire Wolfe family. Fragments have been found among his papers which suggest that Wolfe experimented with his family as characters for drama immediately following his father's death, and at this time conceived in some embryonic form, the general outline of Look Homeward, Angel...
...Walkout. This ringing statement seemed to suggest that France would never consent to independence for Algeria, and Constantine's European settlers were cheered. But not for long. In fact, within a few minutes, the leaders of Constantine's right-wing Committee of Public Safety-seated not on the rostrum but in a stand near by-stomped out angrily. They might have helped bring De Gaulle to power, but the triumphant Premier no longer needed them...
...further increase in leukemia from anything (meaning nuclear power) that has developed in the last 15 years, Epidemiologists Alexander G. Gilliam and William A. Walter declare in Public Health Reports: present trends "provide no support whatsoever" for such a pessimistic view. On the contrary, they say, the data suggest that exposure to whatever causes operate to produce leukemia (which nobody knows) has leveled off or actually decreased...
...your wholly admirable editorial on "White Inclemency" may I add a few words of clarification. Massachusetts law which bans discrimination in all public and publicly-assisted housing is not, as you suggest, entirely silent on the discriminatory practices of rooming house owners...