Word: suggestting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your anti-British periodical you repeatedly gibe at British policy during the Munich crisis. Will you please state, clearly and succinctly, what the U.S. government did during that crisis to lessen the danger of war? I suggest that the answer be given, clearly and succinctly, in one word: nothing...
Pledge Fulfilled. Since 1946, no French Premier had dared to suggest that draftees should be sent to fight in the jungles and paddies of Indo-China; only last weekend the Socialists had reaffirmed their stand against it. Mendèes went beyond mere suggestion. Already, he went on, preparations were under way. Troops were getting inoculations and tropical uniforms; permission had been obtained from the NATO command. Said Mendèes: "The national interest demands that the vote be already obtained when I hand in my resignation." It would be the last act of his government, he declared. "Thus...
...Guns. Both had been moderately successful songwriters individually and admirers of each other's work. Both could write both words and music. A large part of their collaboration, they discovered after getting together, turned on a spontaneous veto-rule: one of them would suggest an idea for a lyric or hum a snatch of melody; if the other actively opposed it, out it went without argument. Some days, when working to a deadline, they might draft all but the last eight bars of a song, and each go home to dream up his own solution. After that, a song...
...radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April 20, 1953). The results so far, said the institute's director, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, "justify the hope that...
Leslie should suggest to her that Hollywood cannot always be trusted to provide the best employment for her remarkable acting talents...