Word: suggestting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat to break off the talks, and worried when Churchill announced his trip, Chou met urgently with Eden. While committing himself to nothing, Chou hinted that the Communists might be willing to consider Laos and Cambodia separately from Viet Nam, and he rephrased some of his proposals to suggest that the Communists might withdraw some Viet Minh forces from those states. Eden promptly changed his plans for breaking off the conference...
There were hearty rounds of applause for Tubaman Catelinet, Conductor Barbirolli and Composer Vaughan Williams, who was sitting in the front row. Next day the London Times summed up: "The tone . . . was sufficiently rich and warm to fire any composer's imagination, but [Catelinet] did not suggest that the tuba can do much in the way of varied phrasing or dynamic nuance to repay promotion to a solo status...
...frustrated than Edwina at Percy's gentle but unyielding reluctance to father her offspring. Every day the professor stands before their cage at the London Zoo to observe their mating habits. He anticipates a certain fame as the first white man to see and record what native reports suggest is "a ceremonial so poetic, so apparently conscious that, if it were true it must mark a stage between the highest beast and Man." When a government interloper tries to requisition Percy for a suicidal rocket project, the professor decides that nobody is going to make a guinea...
...they did, five or six times daily. At cozy meetings, attended largely by neighborhood housewives, Jimmy drank coffee and served up charm along with his political pitch. He knew what the assembled ladies would be thinking about. So a lesser candidate would carefully bring up the subject, and suggest that everyone would like to hear Jimmy's side of the story. Then Jimmy would explain gently that his wife had blackmailed him into signing an untrue confession. If pressed, he would add: "To me, public life is a profession. If you were going to seek medical advice, you wouldn...
...Humble Pie. In Chicago, the Robert Moores decided to give their marriage another try after the judge learned that Moore's income was $65 a week, told him: "You're too poor to enjoy the luxury of a divorce. I suggest that you become reconciled . . . Start off by taking your wife to lunch...