Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From court, and prosecution as well, came verification that some of the testimony-of police brutality, of enforced hunger, of officially induced lying-was indeed true. Paradoxically, the evidence was made possible by the Polish Communist Party itself. With the relaxation of Russian control it has been trying to suggest that it is capable of leniency and of sympathy with Polish workers...
...course, the current regime's 1952 campaign failed to suggest any rich heritage of conservation. Instead Eisenhower promised to hand over the Federal government's vast offshore oil reserves to a few states...
...week). He guessed that "many of you here will not agree with me. Some of you, frankly, will probably think I am a little bit crazy. But I am quite sure that none of you will think I am not honest." The crowd applauded, and Ike went on to suggest how the nation might "find the right answers" to its problems great and small-by approaching them "as Americans and in the spirit of give-and-take...
What to Seek. Dulles put forward the users' association plan in the most deliberately tentative terms, his speech studded with phrases such as "I suppose," "I would think," "I suggest." "What is it that we seek?" he asked. "It is nothing hostile to or prejudicial to Egypt" but "on a provisional, de facto practical operating basis, a measure of cooperation with Egypt." The association would hire pilots, collect and pay out tolls and fees. Membership, he said, "would not involve the assumption by any member of any obligation," though naturally "it would be hoped" members would voluntarily cooperate...
Throughout, the subcommittee called on no top school administrators to defend integration, asked none of the testifying teachers to suggest improvements. If the hearings demonstrated anything in their dreary recitation of well-known facts, it was simply that Negroes have suffered educationally and culturally in comparison with whites, and that the gap must be closed before they can compete on equal terms in the schools...