Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow had sent Professor Sergei Davidenkov to attend Stalin's "very dear Comrade Thorez." Davidenkov disagreed with the French doctors, said that he would personally guarantee a cure in a Moscow clinic. Thorez' wife, Communist Deputy Jeannette Vermeersch, took the hint and publicly asked the Soviet to treat her husband. The Red Foreign Ministry made the request official, the French government agreed and Thorez...
...draw conclusions that the poet never intended. "You know," said Eliot in a confidential digression, "in one of my poems I use the words 'the spectre of a Rose.' Now, I intended that to refer to the Wars of the Roses. Then I wanted it to hint of Sir Thomas Browne's famous 'ghost of a Rose'. . . But I was also quite pleased to hear that some people thought it referred to Nijinsky [and the ballet associated with him]." Nobody had any trouble following such poet's wordplay, so Eliot continued with more confidences...
...North American continent's front door, islands to be defended one by one. But the steppingstones had to be seen. The globe, for instance, did not show the masses of empty tundra stretching inland from the western coast like sloshy, moldy pudding. No map could hint the subzero temperatures that could cripple an army, taunt it with frostbite, hold it to a mile-a-day advance through roadless mountains and plains...
McLaughry was still coach yesterday afternoon when he directed Dartmouth's light scrimmage in the Harvard stadium. There was no hint to the public that he would not be coach today...
...talking to the principals involved in Scully's book I am immediately impressed by their sincerity. There is not the slightest hint of "kidding...