Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best-Kept Secret. How such a world-famed masterpiece arrived at the Met is so far one of the art world's best-kept secrets. The Met has had the triptych for more than a year, hints that it has not been in Belgium since World War II, gives no hint as to the identity of the seller. Several months ago (long after the fact) Belgian authorities heard rumor of a pending sale, called on the Merode family, which had owned it for two generations, to stop the transaction. When it was pointed out that the altarpiece had been...
...rough text which he had written out during the afternoon. Said he of the NATO meeting: "There was one basic purpose implicit in every discussion and debate of the conference. That was the pursuit of a just peace. Not once during the week did I hear any slightest hint of saber-rattling or of aggressive intent. Of course, all of us were concerned with developing the necessary spiritual, economic and military strength of our defensive alliance...
...James Sinclair: "The minister groaned and produced a very small mouse." Perhaps to placate taxpayers who might agree, Fleming pointed out that in 5½ months he had not yet been in office long enough ''to achieve all the measures of tax reform" he would like-a hint he doubtless hoped would not be lost on the voters, who will probably go to the polls again in the spring...
...Smith, 59, stickles without compromise about active-duty requirements for military promotion. Last August she successfully blocked the elevation of Cinemactor James (The Spirit of St. Louis) Stewart to reserve brigadier general in the Air Force. Her contention: Stewart's glamour could not justify the advancement. With no hint that she would like someday to be a chicken colonel (Stewart's rank), Senator Smith, light colonel in the U.S.A.F. Reserve, last week got back into uniform, prepared for a month's study of guided missiles...
From Terence, Wycherley took a hint for his chief character, a London rake named Horner, who, to make lust easier, spreads the report that he is impotent. At once husbands contemptuously allow him access to their wives, and soon the secretly gloating Horner has a harem. From Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, Wycherley took his ingenuous young country wife, who is not quite carefully enough guarded by a jealous husband, and who proves as eager a pupil as Horner is a teacher...