Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uninspected barnyard slaughterhouses, the seller might suggest to the buyer: "Bet you $100 you can't hit the barn door with your hat at 100 yards...
...indecent to suggest that there is some sort of Malthusian justice in the millions of famine deaths checking excessive growth of population. It is true that Indians are multiplying too fast. But it is sheer perversity to expect people who cannot afford an elementary education and a handful of rice to buy contraceptives. Everywhere in the world slums breed human beings too fast, and India is one vast slum. The remedy is not to lecture the Indians . . . but to abolish the slummy conditions of life...
...Trivial . . . were your reviewer's rather snide remarks [TIME, April 8] about my "sub-historical" stuff (in Intimations of Eve), and my Tarzanish and Alley-Oopian portrayals; but of greater moment is his deft effort to conceal his ignorance and suggest his erudition with such remarks: "Experts may wish to argue . . . whether the principle of the canoe was grasped before the principle of the baby...
...dingy boyhood † and his youth as a Greek Orthodox seminarist and, later, a revolutionary political organizer and jailbird, suffers from lack of documentation. Trotsky scrupulously indicates the variegated reliability of his scanty sources, most of them boy hood friends and later enemies of Stalin, whose comments suggest William Wordsworth's definition of lyric poetry: strong emotion recollected in tranquillity (usually in jail or exile). He also makes devastating use of the official encomiums* written (usually in fear of jail or exile) after Stalin became powerful. The happy paucity of source materials enables Trotsky to draw the same kind...
Your December tribute to the "Man of the Year" has become something of an American Institution. May I suggest a counterbalance for this feature...