Word: suggestting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press still commands little esteem from Frenchmen. By U.S. standards, most papers are typographically jumbled, abound in inaccurate and slanted, misleading stories. Foreign correspondents in Paris soon get over the shock of having officials suggest when information is unavailable: "Why don't you invent something...
...dreaming does not take place while the body is restless in light sleep; far from flashing by almost instantaneously (as commonly believed), dreams can last as long as an hour. A key to dreams is eye movement, which can be detected by electrodes attached to the eyelids. Vertical movements suggest that the dream in progress involves climbing or falling; horizontal, that the dreamer is following the actions of dream figures across a scene. Subjects awakened five minutes after a flurry of eye movements had far clearer recollections of dreams than those allowed a 15-minute lapse. ¶ Brookhaven National Laboratory...
...statesmanship is to replace political expediency, legislators must seek a less partisan approach to the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty. To this end, the President should establish a special commission to investigate the causes of agricultural dislocation and suggest possible solutions to the farmer's economic difficulties. Formed of agronomists, economists, political scientists, and representatives of labor, management and farm groups, such a commission would be empowered to evaluate methods of agricultural production and distribution in the light of the nation's long-term needs...
...when the Army finally drafted him, he was ranked as a private. Disturbed by the sight of a private bossing officers, his superiors ordered him to wear civilian clothes. Schlesinger apparently enjoys joking about the incident; his friends, however, feel the rank of private was grossly unjust and suggest that humor masks his real embarrassment...
...protocol. He wanted to remind K. & B. that Middle East oil is now Britain's lifeline, and a war there could not be localized-because 'Britain would enter "it. "He wanted'-to as sure them that the Western alliance can not be splintered, and to suggest that the true test of Soviet eagerness for coexistence would be its willingness to abandon subversion abroad. He had filled much of K. & B.'s schedule with opportunity for such cozy seminars. Though they would also have a chance to see the ballet, a few old castles and a factory...