Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fisherman in the South Seas, Dusty Miller, who habitually stood his watches in native costume, had brought his little ship safely through many such perils, and on this, his last voyage, no storms of undue severity were reported. Yet Miller and his passengers never reached the Tokelaus. The first hint of his fate came more than a month later when Joyita, listing badly, half full of water but still afloat and seaworthy, was discovered wallowing alone and abandoned in a gently rolling sea some 600 miles off her course...
...Gave a hint of the new government's policy toward the Roman Catholic Church. One noon a presidential car rolled up before the residence of Bishop Miguel de Andrea, took him mysteriously off to the big house he founded for working girls. Inside, waiting at a table for a surprise luncheon with the bishop were President Aramburu and Vice President Isaac Rojas. The girls cheered. Liberal Bishop de Andrea is a popular opponent of the old-fogy Church clique that got along fine with Perón until he tried to curb their prerogatives; from the government...
...Roszak produced something brand-new in surface ornaments: he carefully puddled ingots of aluminum into "contemporary amor-phic baroque" blobs, then welded them to the steeple's base. Still to come: a bell for the steeple. What it will look like, M.I.T. refuses to say beyond the tantalizing hint: "Of course, it won't look like a bell...
Penning a New York Times piece to help mark the celebration of Mozart Year, famed Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 52, gave readers an unwitting hint of when old age sets in for child prodigies: "Love and understanding for Mozart came rather late in my life as a musician. Mozart's music didn't mean much to me until I was about 13 or 14 years...
...Cover-Up." The Laborites were just as anxious to avoid any hint of "McCarthyism." Said Herbert Morrison, during whose tenure the pair escaped: "After all, the noblest band of men in history had their Judas ... If they had been arrested and ultimately found innocent, that would have brought discredit ..." Only a few were so rude as to be blunt. The truth is, snapped Laborite Alfred Robens, that there was "a close circle of 'coverup' for one's friends [in the Foreign Office], How can it be that a couple of drunks, a couple of homosexuals well known...