Before Biruta could bring herself to do anything about the startling suggestion made by Madame Bukowska, the two women met again.

At the recent summit conference in Washington, Secretary General Gorbachev made the startling suggestion for a negotiated halt in offensive arms deliveries to Sandinist Nicaragua.

Hetty," he added, turning to the artist, who alone of the observers had smiled instead of groaned at the old gentleman's startling suggestion, "will you kindly run up to my rooms and get a red leather case that lies under the shell cabinet?

Bevir's habit was to roam with a cloud of verbiage and then pop out of his hole with a startling suggestion, almost as quickly popping back.

"It was a startling suggestion--going from a desk chair to a glider," he recalled.

But when Sharon and Mike had been insistent he had made a series of startling suggestions.

At a meeting with several state officials visiting to discuss a new drainage project, he dropped the startling suggestion that he might build a wall across a state road that runs through the village if Albany didn't begin to maintain it better.

Una racked her small brains for some way of averting it, but it was Nan Blythe who came to the rescue with a somewhat startling suggestion.

I sent Mr. Bernstein our evidence for this unpleasant and startling suggestion.

Lofland supports this startling suggestion by documenting the rise of what he calls the "youth ghetto"--large communities occupied almost entirely by college students.