Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mental institution there, the cause of the visit, as an example of this. Throughout the talk, an airplane trailing a "Vote for Stevenson" sign circled overhead, and Stevenson noted that he had nothing to do "with that irritating airplane" which, he feared, was giving the dedication a political hint. Governor Dever merely smiled...
...they could never find him to press the charges. Then, three years ago, Liandru's luck seemed to turn. Time after time the carabinieri barely missed catching him. How that could be, nobody was saying, but one Sunday morning in 1949, the parishioners of Orgosolo got a strong hint. On the whitewashed wall of the little Church of Santa Croce was a list of 36 names crudely lettered in tar and labeled: "These are the spies of Orgosolo." The names were those of Orgosolo villagers from all walks of life. They even included that of Liandru...
...sooner had he published the first volume-Men at Arms-of a trilogy (see BOOKS) than Novelist Evelyn Waugh unwittingly gave his fans a hint of the subject matter of Vol. II. A personal advertisement in the London Times announced: "Evelyn Waugh seeks detailed information P.O.W. routine from then junior officer taken prisoner unwounded France, 1940; hospitality, expenses and ?50 ($140) offered to applicant willing to spend two days in near future under interrogation...
...government. But last August it became apparent that fhe government could retain its command of Parliament only with the support of the crypto-Communists. U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy let it be known at a cocktail party that he thought it was time for new elections. Taking the hint, King Paul lashed out at "bad Greeks who insult the U.S. instead of thanking her." Without the support of the army, the palace, or the embassy...
Such honesty has led hostile critics to hint that Mauriac is essentially a refined sensualist who, from motives of caution or guilt, takes care to renew his option with God. Mauriac, in a brief essay appended to The Loved and the Unloved, replies in a voice of deep humility: "Though, quite often, Grace does 'break in' [to his books], it has tended to do so less and less as I have grown older ... I might point out that evil is a reality in this world of ours, that the people I set out to paint are fallen creatures...