Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Always trying to beat TIME'S headline writers to the punch, may I suggest for some future story of conditions in a bomb-battered German capital (as per British promise)-"Berlin Diarrhea...
Once I ventured meekly to suggest that the best way to prevent crime was not to abolish the police force but to maintain an adequate and well-trained one. Gazing at me pityingly, Mr. Hoover turned to the rest of the class and remarked with clinical detachment: "In Miss Willson, young women, you have a perfect example of economic predetermination...
Paroled for a six-month probationary period to her sister, Mrs. John Quigley, of Nyssa, Ore., Lyda had no immediate plans. Declaring that Lyda "embroiders divinely," Mrs. Quigley suggested that she might set her sister up in a fancywork shop. Mrs. Quigley did not suggest a restaurant...
...Field Marshal Lord Milne, who was Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1926-33, wrote an article for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in which he said: "To those who are desirous of action and demanding a new front for attack, I would suggest that the opportunity for action is approaching. . . . The Russian-Persian line is our invasion front and we must invade with all the power we have...
...figures in the painting are therefore purposely given horrible, almost indecent distortions so that one will recoil on seeing them. The artist thus hopes to "suggest" the chaos and shock of disaster, the destruction of mind and spirit that takes place in such a catastrophe as the air raid on Guernica and, above all, the helpless rage and hatred of the trapped victims...