Word: suggests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Smoking. The opposition to Dewey collapsed in the face of one question: how can you argue with the people? With Dewey so clearly in front in all public soundings,* to reject him for some other candidate might suggest a picture of sinister men in smoke-filled rooms, defying the will of the people. Tom Dewey's shrewd managers could either afford to sit tight, or had been ordered to, or both. And they did. They staged no preconvention banquets or band concerts. Dewey's No. 1 feminine supporter, tall, grey Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, occupied inconspicuous basement quarters...
...month-old speech of Sumner Welles's, forced newspapers and radio stations to use a distorted version which had the onetime Under Secretary of State endorsing the Buenos Aires jingoes. Actually, Welles did no such thing; he did not even name Argentina. But he did suggest that the U.S. State Department had mishandled its Argentine relations and that it had made a mistake in trying to bully a sensitive people...
...white man said that he had done a crime. He was sentenced to die. Baffled by white man's law, he could only suggest: "I have cattle. Take them in payment for the crime...
...hardness of a Dutch tile. Carmen Amaya, who has nothing to do with the plot, dances powerfully, continues to convey passion by making faces as if her partner had just trod on her corns. Kurt Weill's score has moments notably the gay-sad September Song, that suggest his great Die Dreigroschenoper...
...here, gentlemen, is a golden opportunity. The staff of the Navy Supply Yearbook is offering one fat, gilt-edged copy of that publication, valued at an astronomical figure, but selling, at a sacrifice, for $5, to the one among you who can suggest an acceptance title befitting of such an edition at its approaching christening...