Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aldrich said he did not suggest that McCarthy had invited applause but that "nothing is more foreign to a trial than for a witness even to appear to be engaged in a popularity contest." He thanked the jurors for their "day spent to no purpose," and dismissed them...
...present situation in the Houses, have no idea of what it's like to have a room of their own in which to sleep and study. Having never had this experience, students can hardly be "concerned" about missing it. But at any rate, we should like to suggest to the Faculty, the Overseers, and the Visiting Committee that today's undergraduates are concerned about the consequences of overcrowding. What the Committee regards as merely an "official opinion" is also a valid and important fact...
...Huff. Walkouts and boycotts are by now a familiar, if unpleasant, occurrence to the U.N. But this was the first time a government had gone so far as to pull out its entire delegation and to suggest out loud that it would consider withdrawing from the world organization. U.N. diplomats were stunned by the radical method France had chosen to resist any international meddling in the affairs of the North Africa territory that for more than a century has been administered as a part of metropolitan France...
Responding to Sihanouk's invitation, thousands of sarong-clad Cambodian Smiths and Mrs. Smiths thronged into the city to participate in a national congress to suggest constitutional amendment and nominate a Premier. All an adult citizen needed to do to be a "congressman" was to present a coconut, a grapefruit, or some similar token, to King Norodom Suramarit, Sihanouk's father. Some 30,000 availed themselves of the opportunity...
...their credentials in order, congregated around the palace's ballet theater. The meeting was more in the nature of a mass rally than a formal legislative conclave, but Sihanouk, whose party had swept the last election (TIME, Sept. 26), thought it the best way to let his countrymen suggest laws and reforms. The crowd approved several constitutional changes proposed by the ex-King. One severed Cambodia's last legal bond of allegiance to France by striking from the constitution the words "Cambodia is part of the French Union." "An independent country doesn't have to mention...