Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from further inflationary bites" than they do from temporary postponement of borrowing. In fact, said Martin, if he had it all to do over again he would have laced up bank credit even tighter, beginning back in late 1954, to hold inflation down. But, he added with just a hint of relenting: "The balance between savings and investment can change completely in three to four months' time...
After Dulles' first hint, at his press conference, Knowland spoke up. It would be "immoral" and "insupportable," he said, "to punish Israel while Russia disregards U.N. resolutions on Hungary with impunity." Then Ike backed Dulles by pointedly noting, in reply to a press-conference question about sanctions, that the U.S. is "committed to the support of the U.N." Undeterred, Bill Knowland rumbled: "What I said yesterday I repeat today. I stand...
...Only one hint of the Soviet Union's vastly stepped-up nuclear program (five bombs exploded since August 1956) was given by Pervukhin: an order to rush work on big electric-power projects-essential to atomic development-at Kuybyshev, Saratov and Stalingrad (on the Volga) and Kairak-Kum, Irkutsk and Novosibirsk (in Siberia). Something speedier and more pliable than the old Piatiletki was needed to harness these horses...
Iowa. Herschel C. Loveless, 45, is Iowa's first Democratic governor in 18 years, and, true to his name, is virtually the only Democrat to win state office in 1956. In his inaugural address he hit the G.O.P.-controlled legislature with carefully drawn proposals, including a hint that was bound to stir up the session: he would like a re-study of dry-inclined Iowa's stringent liquor regulations (package sales only...
Within Saudi Arabia princes built palaces for their private comfort, hotels and apartment houses for their private profit. Officials and palace hangers-on made fortunes in kickbacks and invested their profits in Egyptian or Lebanese real estate. When a Western diplomat tried to hint to Ibn Saud that his money was being stolen by corrupt officials, the Old Lion summoned his finance minister and demanded 1,000,000 riyals on the. spot. Soon sacks of coins were stacked around him. Triumphantly, the old king turned to the diplomat, declaring: "As King I must know that there is money available...