Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wore on, the filibusterers began to hint that they had had their fun and would fold up their cots this week. Gore, looking fresh as ever, admitted that his fight "is now one of hopeless odds." Toward evening Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had been conspicuously silent, proposed that all agree to a limitation of debate. Characteristically, Morse objected. Nevertheless, with Johnson telling his Democrats that it was time to show some sense of responsibility, the filibustered were not likely to hold out much longer. Bill Knowland, clearly frazzled but somewhat encouraged, decided to let the Senators take Sunday...
...good deal of wit, and a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear. As for Thelma Ritter, who plays a visiting nurse, she is probably the only actress alive who can stick a thermometer in a man's mouth and say, without a hint of affectation: "See if you can break a hundred...
...hero Joe McCarthy had begun to "irritate" too many people. Even the paper's front-page cartoons, which often showed a runty, Ike-faced figure, idly playing golf while bigger tasks went undone in the background, have been replaced by nonpolitical cartoons. More and more readers detect a hint of reasonableness in Trib editorials for some of the opinions of the other side. Apart from politics, the colonel has ordered dry-runs on a gossip column for the Trib, although in the past he has scorned such things as the work of "keyhole peepers...
...just breaks big brother's heart, anyway, to hear them carry on so. But what's to do? He grubs in Plutarch's Lives-one of the two books in the house, in which his wife has been teaching him to read-for a helpful hint, and finds the story of the Sabine women...
...first hint that all was not going well between Mao and his military proconsuls came last February when Liu Shao-chi, the party theoretician and No. 2 in the hierarchy, warned: "Some of our high-ranking cadres . . . regard the region under their leadership as their individual inheritance or independent kingdom." Last week, after months of maneuvering, Peking abolished the six regional areas and substituted 26 provincial administrations, which Peking can more easily control. The six regional bosses gathered in the capital for reckoning and reassignment. Mao Tse-tung immediately appointed them to the People's Revolutionary Military Council, where...