Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest a new word for this earth-shaking convulsion: birthquake...
...semester course because "it will not be a physics class but a physics-appreciation course -an appreciation of what physics is about, not a practical knowledge. When you teach music appreciation, you do not sit the student down and make him play the scales with no mistakes. You suggest he listen to the Ninth Symphony, and then discuss it with...
Bomar and colleagues review 30 such instances at Greenville General Hospital, conclude that anesthesia is not the only villain as often as some surgeons would like to think. On the contrary, they suggest, advances in anesthesia have produced so strong an "anesthesia is safe"attitude that surgeons fail to take full precautions against operating-table crises for weakened patients...
...London during World War II and sent with other refugees to a west-country village. At 13 or so, he has a good mind but a lousy head, and when his poll is shaved to free him from vermin, he acquires a cruel nickname. Gary was too sensible to suggest that all the boy's troubles begin when jeering ruffians call him "Lousy." But Charley tries harder than he might have done to win followers-by passing out candy and soda pop, then by stealing a car and leading an expedition to the cinema in a neighboring town...
...wise arbitration panel, mindful of the public interest, might say: Let management drop its bungled demand for authority to change work practices; let the union accept management's demand for a noninflationary wage settlement keyed to productivity. But past performances of federal mediation boards suggest that the panel may split the difference between the industry's 2.7%-a-year package and McDonald's demands, which the industry estimates at 5% a year. Such an outcome would stir a new ripple of price increases. Predicted a high steel executive last week: "If a third party writes the settlement...