Word: clues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What kind of car people drive has long been considered a clue to their psyche, including their sexual fantasies. Now, would you believe it's a tip-off to their political fantasies as well...
...alterations were left to John Elderkin, who diverted the river down a precipitous slope to his grist mill. This led to a marvelous lawsuit in which a judge ruled that Elderkin was entitled to no more than a third of the Charles's water, although the judge gave no clue as to how the river water could be measured...
Asked Bailey quickly: 'Then long hair is a clue...
Through the entire book, there is the elusive suggestion of momentous questions, of Oedipal relations, of age, of the child's world, of death. We should take a clue from Gide: to be able to read Simenon with interest is to read between the lines, to make a creative extrapolation. By itself, Letter to My Mother is the maudlin nostalgia of an old man; however, with a bit of imagination on the reader's part, the roman policier mentality can be the catalyst to other, more serious reflections...
...males, while females do the majority of wild-plant gathering. Thus Wilson is being very cautious when he says "There is no compelling reason to conclude that men did the hunting while women stayed at home" (during early human evolution) for "Comparisons with other primate species offer no clue as to when the trait appeared...