Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saudi Arabia's ex-King Saud is down to his last few dozen concubines, scrimps along on a Swiss bank account that has dwindled to a mere $250 million, and has taken the hint from his brother, King Feisal, who deposed him in 1964, that he's not welcome in his homeland. In Greece, where he now hitches his camel, the 67-year-old monarch could not even summon a smile when his daughter, Princess Apta, 23, presented him with a new grandson named Abdul Aziz. There was good reason for Saud's glumness: he already...
...more artists are devoting themselves to art that exists primarily in the mind's eye. Called "conceptual art," it usually exists in the form of a scale model, a preliminary sketch or a written description, suitable for framing. Any of these items, the artists explain, are but a hint, a shadow, a shade, a clue to the real thing, which is usually some concept so complex, so subtle, so abstract or simply so large that it cannot be reduced to a mere two or three dimensions...
...would like to see the day when every blind child has an opportunity of an education and every blind grownup has the chance for training and job placement." The American Foundation for the Blind appointed her counselor on national and international relations, a title that conveyed only a hint of her activities; governments from Washington to Tokyo gave her medals...
...Committee ever seriously considered recommending a university school for Harvard, there is no hint of it in the report. In fact it says specifically that "there is no case" for the idea. The report calls much of Harvard's hostility to the Cambridge schools ill-informed; the best of the city's elementary schools are as good as those in the suburbs, it says. And it recommends that, "if invited," the University should provide teachers and advisers on released time...
...television sets. In the Los Angeles district of Watts, California's most notorious Slough of Despond, the orderly rows of one-story, stucco houses reflect the sun in gay pastels, and only the weed-grown gaps between stores along the wide main streets?"instant parking lots"?hint at the volcanic mob fury that three years ago erupted out of poverty to take 34 lives and destroy $40 million worth of property...