Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About ten minutes before the gas ran out, I asked Captain Alfred Junod, the pilot, in what order he wanted us to jump. I was going to suggest drawing straws, when Corporal Peter Foley, with great Irish dignity, asked for the privilege of going first. I was prepared to go first, if occasion called, but none of us denied Foley the honor. Dorfman, we decided, was to go second because he wanted me to stand back of him and push him if he lost his nerve. Then I got in line, then Kronk, the engineer-leaving Junod still...
...SUGGEST RENAMING IMPENDING CONFERENCE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL PEACE CONFERENCE...
...that we and all the peoples of the days and years to come may dutifully and lovingly honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt's great beneficence and vision, let us, the people of America, suggest to all the leaders and common folk of the world that the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Court of Nations be erected to house the conferences and meetings that are to come in the days of peace. ... If his spirit pervades its halls, we Americans as well as all freedom-loving peoples of the world will be well represented...
...suggest that the men who have fought steadily since D-day (or before, Heaven forbid!) be sent home from Germany and given surveys. ... A large percentage would volunteer for extra service in the Pacific if given the opportunity for advancement and additional compensation. A volunteer army recruited from the troops who fought in Europe would be an army with a high morale...
...produced so great and sincere a leader of this country. The ideals for which he stood and fought will live always if we are intelligent enough to preserve them. At the coming San Francisco parley, may the leaders of the conference remember these ideals. To insure this, I humbly suggest they put another chair at the table-to remain there for Roosevelt. Let it be a material reminder to them and the world of the things for which this great man stood...