Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Britain, gratitude for Churchill's wartime services had become tinged with impatience. With more sorrow than anger, newspapers began to suggest that it was about time for him to retire. Last week, the News Chronicle advised him to withdraw to his study and write a chronicle of World War II, instead of wasting his eloquence on parliamentary name calling-like "a great poet spending his time writing Christmas cracker mottoes...
Next time you run into Gus Kuester [TIME, April 29] pacing the anteroom of his porcine maternity ward, would you suggest to him that perhaps one reason he is so cheerful about the future of this country is because I am helping to pay for his pigs? I myself am not so happy about it, as it wasn't my idea to let Washington spend one-fifth of my rapidly diminishing income on these subsidies- although since I must, I only hope the pork chops are going to starving Europe, since they certainly never show...
...Suggest that we utilize only known large-scale reserve of food which is ready to ship immediately and has not already been figured into the national food picture: namely, the vast reserves of C, K, and other emergency rations currently held in depots in U.S. and overseas by Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines against contingency of war. Despite international squabbling, I believe even military leaders will admit war is definitely no threat for a minimum of a year or two until other nations are in atom bomb production...
...movie adaptation of A. J. Cronin's tender The Green Years is a wholly disgusting critical endeavor. . . . The remark that "if cinema carries this sort of thing much farther, theaters will have to be consecrated" . . . is narrow, and is so lacking in perspicacity as to suggest that the reviewer is the residual of a brain extraction...
...eleven nations at the horseshoe table, including the three (France, Mexico, Poland) which had originally backed Russia's demand for immediate U.N. action against Franco, supported Australia's proposal for a five-man subcommittee to sift the facts on Spain and suggest by May 31 what "practical measures" U.N. could take. Andrei Gromyko said he "intensely disagreed" but would abstain, "realizing that my vote against the proposal would make its adoption impossible." Gromyko thus reiterated Russia's sweeping interpretation of the veto. Earlier, Russia had threatened another walkout from U.N. After the Council voted down...