Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the West could not avoid the automatic twinge of uneasiness that comes whenever Communists get together. It would be a jar, indeed, to have strong, rambunctious Marshal Tito and his husky army march back at full flag to the service of Communist expansion. But in almost every clue to the Yalta meeting and in every conjecture, however farfetched, there was a basic cause for composure: the primary reason for the conclave seemed to be a schism in world Communism...
Randy (scowling): Yes, I know, Lord Erne. It's a word like "send to Coventry," but it seems to be escaping me. Can you give me a clue...
...slight, short, pencil-mustachioed Nicaraguan who had worked until lately as a salesman of phonograph records in neighboring El Salvador. He could never reveal his motive: witnesses counted 20 bullet holes in his body. But as an occasional contributor to local newspapers, he had left at least one clue that hinted at an obsession for martyrdom. In a piece of literary criticism written ten days before for the León Cronista, López Pérez said: "Immortality is the aim of life and of glorious death." His acquaintances said that he grumbled incessantly against President Somoza...
...First clue to the forgotten fresco's existence came to light when workmen moved the sarcophagus with the bones of the church's founder, discovered behind it bits of an old fresco on the wall. Restorer Brambilla, on hand to work on a later work by Fiammenghino, quickly turned her attention to the new find. Working meticulously with microscope and checking herself by photographing the work as she went along, she managed to uncover the fresco and preserve the color down to the last clinging dab of paint...
...desperate): Well, the only clue I can give you is that it's something people do to other people or nations do to other nations. It's-I might even be misleading you-it's also a verb. It's something that takes place on a nation...