Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shell had played its strike carefully, but oilmen got a hint that something was in the wind even before the announcement. When the company started drilling last month 60 miles southwest of Ely, anyone could wander around and look to his heart's content. But after ten days of drilling, Shell suddenly changed its mind. It put up a sign warning away visitors and built a fence around the operation. But by the time the well was brought in, at 6,433 ft, shrewd Nevadans were already trickling into Reno's land office, snapping...
...cellmate, "the Preacher." The Preacher is a pathological killer and a religious fanatic, a kind of evangelistic Bluebeard who murders widows for their mite, but has been caught, so far, only for stealing a car. And before he dies, Ben Harper, mumbling in his sleep, gives the Preacher a hint: "And a little child shall lead them...
...worst snag was the crocodile-birds, a species of African plover. The crocodile's "dental service" is provided by his plovers ("a mating pair ... to each crocodile"), who fly fearlessly into his open jaws and pick leeches and scraps of food from between his teeth. At the least hint of danger, they leave his jaws with a shriek and the croc submerges...
...reprinted paragraph below was the way TIME Writer Osborn Elliott began the Business essay in the Jan. 25 issue of TIME. After it appeared, TIME'S Washington correspondent George B. Bookman decided to check with Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to see if any auto salesman had taken the hint. This is what Bookman reported...
...since 1945 there has ben a sudden shift in I.Q. In Stalag 17 we see a hint when one character warns "Remember, just because the krauts are dumb, that doesn't mean they're stupid." And in The Devil Makes Three several Germans--those helping Gene Kelly--seem almost smart...