Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final day against Czechoslovakia, the exhausted U.S. team was trailing 4-3 when it got a surprise assist. Russian Captain Nikolai Sologubov, who speaks no English, approached Coach Riley, gestured as if he were gasping, then mimed putting on an oxygen mask. Riley got the hint. He procured an oxygen bottle, gave Bob Cleary and his weary-legged mates a whiff. They promptly rallied for six goals and a 9-4 victory, skated off with the first U.S. gold medal in hockey. When the game was done, the man they mobbed was Goalie Jack McCartan, the sub who had become...
Resolution. Brown buzzed fitfully for days, declaimed at visitors and friends about his problem. His assistant attorney general, Richard Rogan, even called Director George V. Allen of the U.S. Information Agency in Washington to hint strongly that the Governor would like an official request for clemency; Allen refused. But Roy Rubottom's telegram last week resolved the Governor's doubts...
Slowly, sonorously, without a hint of smile, he set forth, first with courtesies, then with his message. "The wind of change is blowing through this continent," said Macmillan. "Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact, and we must come to terms with it." South Africa had a right to its own policies, but, said Macmillan, "in this shrinking world, the internal policies of one nation may have effects outside it," and the old saying, "mind your own business" now needs amendment to "mind your own business, but mind how it affects...
Palace servants have come to expect meals to be dashed to the floor simply because the salt is out of place. High officials know what it means when a hint is dropped that the prince would like to be invited to lunch. Upon receiving such a hint one day, the governor of Amman hastily rounded up 100 distinguished guests and prepared no fewer than 15 roast lambs, only to have Mohammed drive by at the appointed hour-on his way to a rendezvous with a maiden in the neighborhood...
...imposed conformity. It begins when the last political prisoner in an unnamed nation signs his confession and reconciles himself to "the Infant and his uncle the Regent," which means that everybody in "the best state in the world" has attained a state of "perfect loyalty," with "not a hint of incipient disloyalty," as various characters tell one another with maddening frequency. By the time someone began screaming that "the people have become wildly, cruelly, bestially loyal," I felt for him. I really...