Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday services at nearby Crathie Church. The crowd outside toppled part of the churchyard wall in its crush to see her. The princess looked radiant, especially when the Rev. John Lamb, from the pulpit, wished her "the fulfillment of her desires.'' The day passed quietly, without public hint of whether fulfillment in this case involved R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, 40, the divorced air hero whom she could now marry, provided Parliament lets her renounce all rights of royal succession...
...Houghton Library for rare books was opened, complete with temperature and humidity control. In 1945, in response to a hint that Metcalf had dropped at a dinner some years before, Manhattan Financier Thomas W. Lamont (1892) gave Harvard $1,500,000 for a new open-stack undergraduate library. Meanwhile, Metcalf helped to set up the New England Deposit Library, in which colleges and universities in the Greater Boston area store their little-used books, and the Farmington Plan by which colleges and universities buy foreign publications in common, thus covering the foreign field thoroughly while avoiding wasteful duplications...
...peace. The principle was "nonrecourse to force." Hours later Chou replied in a speech that for him was almost moderate: he called no one a bandit or warmonger. The old demands were reiterated-for U.N. membership and an end to the trade embargo-but alongside them was a hint that Peking might be ready to "enter into negotiations with the responsible local authorities in Formosa." There was no question of Formosan independence, Chou insisted. But "conditions permitting, [the Communists] are prepared to seek the liberation of Formosa by peaceful means." "Peaceful means" was a phrase which Adolf Hitler used when...
...Hint. In Sydney, Australia, Landlord Hermanus Visser was fined $225 after a special court heard that in an effort to evict his tenants he had changed the lock of their flat, put their furniture out on the lawn, taken out the living-room windows, disconnected the water, gas and electricity, demolished the chimney...
...Brussels, some 500 delegates to the Assembly of World Brotherhood sat through five days of speeches without either a hint of dispute or a healthy round of applause. Few speakers succeeded in rising above the grimly mirthless atmosphere of the occasion. Belgium's Foreign Affairs Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, famed as an extemporaneous orator, armed himself with a copy of an old speech, liberally quoted himself, explained that he couldn't express his sentiments any better than he did five years...