Word: clue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indo-China crisis (1954) and Quemoy (1955). which were met firmly by the U.S. and did not lead to war. But in the midst of the cultural thaw, the parted-curtain mood, the flutter of peace doves, these threats had to be kept in mind as a continuing clue to Soviet policy...
...with the duchess of his time. After the duke died in 1796 and the beautiful duchess retired from society, at 34, to mourn alone on the Alba estate, the painter apparently joined her. His great portrait of 1797, now hanging at the Hispanic Society Museum in Manhattan, is the clue. A vital and imperious creature at the peak of womanhood, she stands dressed in mourning, dramatically pointing to the sand by her toes. On her pointing finger is a ring inscribed with Goya's name. On her middle finger is another ring inscribed with the duke...
Modern Politics. To capture the secret, cargo cults usually contain some ritual imitation of European customs which may hold the clue to the white man's magic. Sometimes believers dress in European clothes and sit around tables with bottles of flowers on them, sometimes they pretend to write on pieces of paper. Many of the cults seek to bring on the new by destroying the old; they deliberately violate the ancient taboos of their people, kill their livestock, stop cultivating their fields. "Sometimes they spend days sitting gazing at the horizon for a glimpse of the long-awaited ship...
...substances depend on how well the thyroid gland is functioning. This close relationship between two supposedly distinct systems had not been suspected. A significant item: the body's output of androsterone declines with advancing years. This may explain why some diseases increase in old age, and suggests a clue to ways of slowing them down...
...what had they swallowed? Best clue was that Donna had eaten no flounder and had not got sick. Dr. Singley remembered having read in medical school a 1945 report of sodium nitrite poisoning in New York City. A colleague clinched it: he had just reread the same story in Berton Roueché's Eleven Blue Men, reprinted from The New Yorker. Simultaneously, unknown to the Camden team, doctors across the Delaware River were giving methylene blue to women who had eaten flounder in a downtown restaurant...