Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Detail for Detail. That hint of arrogance hurt Stokes. His campaign manager, Dr. Kenneth Clement, was to rue later: "A lot of people who did not like the idea of a Negro mayor were waiting for an excuse to vote against him." It was not merely an error but a near calamity. In the early opinion polls Stokes had led Taft by 30 points and more. Now he was running scared. He dropped his supercilious needling and swung into substantive issues. To answer his opponent's charge that he had been a poor legislator, Stokes produced a testimonial that...
McCarthy speaks slowly and thoughtfully. As he speaks, he glances occasionally at his hands which seem in a constant awkward motion. He projects a hint of uneasiness and a strong sense of modesty...
...students who were punished in connection with the Dow sit-in received strongly worded letters from their senior tutors yesterday. The letters hint at perhaps stronger punishment if such an incident recurs...
...think it matters, though deprived of specific knowledge, the dates of decisions and actions, his decline becomes less formally tragic. I must apologize for this. His moral and geographic position in life hint at great tragedy and I could not resist suggesting a fury, an activity, a motion that does not exist. Anyway he was half waiting for them to come from America to seize him, to break him dead or force him back to America. Sometimes he said he was a citizen of the world, free, not speaking English. But he was waiting for them all the same. Whatever...
Turn to Fudge. Last summer, Tate imposed a state of limited emergency as a precaution against racial violence and fully backed Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, who mobilized massive force at the least hint of trouble. Having dominated the front pages all summer, Tate is now able to declaim: "While other cities were being burned, sacked and pillaged, Philadelphia had law and order." When Tate demands to know if Specter, as mayor, would keep the controversial Rizzo in office, it is the D.A.'s turn to fudge. To take a stand on Rizzo would alienate either those who considered...