Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over again that their objective is not the offshore islands, that they consider them only Steppingstones to obtain Formosa -there isn't any question but that the United States would then honor our treaty obligations and stand by our ally, Formosa. To do what Senator Kennedy has suggested, to suggest that we will surrender these islands or force our Chinese Nationalist allies to surrender them in advance, is not something that would lead to peace." (Earlier at the Waldorf, Kennedy had suggested that the United Nations might take over Quemoy and Matsu as a compromise...
...government had had little appeal to the average voter. Further-more, they had failed to address themselves to the solution of concrete problems, while deeply immersed within theoretical controversies among themselves. The atrophy of confidence in the opposition party, as well as in the governmental party, might suggest an eventual demise of parliamentarianism itself, reminding one of the situation in the thirties and forties. That this is not an idle speculation can be seen in the attitude of some of the Japanese bureaucrats. In a country where the parliamentary system emerged not as an indigenous political force...
...existing studies of College life suggest the decisions of Faculty and governing , the specific regulations of the Administration, indeed, they very day-to-day attitudes values of the Faculty, shape the development of new Freshmen. Beyond direct influence, College determines by its physical structure, its rules, and by its daily operation the way Freshman picks up ideas and discards about the College. A Harvard man does at just happen by accident...
...poems, like Fledgling, try to suggest too much, and jumble the puns and images. He taxes my imaginative power, at least, with an excess of overly potent words like "comes" and "calms" and "court" in contexts in which his aim is never quite apparent. But all the poems are interesting, worked at with great care, and each finds reflections of itself in the other poems of the series. They are worth the time they take and, if such things can be measured in terms so crude, the fifty cents they cost...
Shamyl had a flare for such dramatics; his men regularly lobbed the heads of spies into Russian camps. And when one faction persuaded his mother to suggest the possibility of surrender, he disappeared into a mosque for three days, then announced: "It is Allah's will that the first person who spoke to me of submission should be punished by a hundred lashes! And this first person is my mother!" He flogged the old lady five times; then, glaring contemptuously at the tribesmen, accepted the rest of her punishment himself...