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Word: hint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bevanites are already talking, in a casual way, about such a man. He is James Griffiths, a 61-year-old Welshman who came, like Nye Bevan, out of the coal mines. They hint that should Attlee drop out at some future date, Bevan himself might not grab for control. Privately, the Bevan followers say that silver-maned Jim Griffiths would be a fine bridge between the moderate, old-line Socialists and the left-wingers. An old-style trade unionist himself, he came from the revivalist meetings and coal dust of South Wales, eked out an education in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mutiny | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

Since part of the movie was filmed on the U.C.L.A. campus, Stewart has been acting as official consultant. It was his suggestion that Conant be described as President of Harvard rather than Yale, in the movie. The Hollywood moguls took the hint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movieland Makes Concession; Conant Restored to College | 3/6/1952 | See Source »

Illinois' aged (85) Congressman Adolph Sabath emerged from the President's office and gave waiting correspondents the latest teasing hint from Harry Truman. According to the Congressman, the President said: "I have had seven years of it, and it's been a trying job ... I would prefer to lay aside the burdens and responsibilities . . . The only thing that can make me run is if I feel it is in the interest of my country and the peace of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Harry Won't Quite Say | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...points that in one case, when the defense called in eight doctors to refute Spilsbury, the jury refused to be swayed by them. At last people began to protest. Spilsbury's pronouncements, a lawyer complained, were becoming "invested with the force of dogma, and it was blasphemy to hint that he might conceivably be wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Among the Dead | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Nautilus' new atomic sister is being built behind a tight security curtain, but by announcing her famous name, the Navy also gave a hint of how fast the work is progressing. The keel will probably be laid soon after the first of the year, and her prefabricated sections will be welded together soon after. From all indications, the new Nautilus will be ready for her shakedown cruise before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Chambered Nautilus | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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