Word: clue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lanky Harvard graduate, Bayne had worked for almost a year in Maharashtra state in India, demonstrating new types of seed to farmers and helping them to fight rats. In the village he drank unboiled water. Bayne's first clue that something was amiss came in mid-August, when cigarettes "just didn't taste good." He quit smoking. A week later, he was nauseated and running a fever. The Peace Corps got him into Bombay's Breach Candy Hospital, where physicians at first thought that this was going to be a routine case. They reported: "Condition satisfactory...
This attitude towards moral considerations--the child so involved in a game that he does not notice its consequences on the "real world" outside the world of the game--gives us a clue towards the origins of this kind of consciousness. We can approach it, I think, if we imagine a child playing, totally involved, and then imagine an adult playing at that game, or at some game adults consider equaly childish like painting, writing, or Rock and Roll. The artist develops a kind of dual consciousness totally involved and serious with one part of his mind, very detached...
...rules will not take effect until private and commercial flyers have had a chance to comment on them at public hearings in Washington. If preliminary reactions last week are any clue, some comments will be angry. Private flyers, in particular, are incensed by the fact that the FAA intends to bar planes from the Golden Triangle pattern in bad weather unless they have a second pilot, can maintain an airspeed of 172 m.p.h. and carry electronic equipment to acknowledge radar signals of FAA controllers...
...Though the people had little notion of the progress of the Moscow negotiations, they knew that their fate hung on them. Nearly 15,000 of them lined the route from Ruzyne airport to the city, waiting in vain some four hours to welcome back their leaders and get some clue to the outcome of the talks...
Rendering unto Moscow. The most telling clue lies not in what the Russians did bring with them to Czechoslovakia but what they did not: a new government. Had the political decision to bring Dubcek under control or to oust him outright been in readiness long, the Soviets would have followed up their efficient military takeover with an equally efficient installation of a ruling order more to their liking. Instead, they placed the country in a state of suspended political animation, letting a surrounded Parliament continue to meet, permitting "detained" leaders to go on bargaining. Having gone all the way militarily...