Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liked them, especially Tovar, who scurried about in one place, tagging photographers and newsmen each time he caught a ball. One hoped that the Press would take the hint. Maggots all, they swarmed around our heroes who were innocent and obliging in their little boy knickers and knee sox. We--the public--had created the Press, or perhaps they created us. In any case, they polluted the field with our worst qualities, our inane curiosity and opportunism. They messed about Yastrzemski as if to pull him down. Solid, neatly divided in two equal parts by his black belt, loosening...
...choice of a husband would be a major political disaster for the Administration, and because there is little likelihood that the President would find the marriage embarrassing. (In any event, as of this week Rusk has outlasted all but six of his predecessors.) But the mere fact that the hint of resignation was reported, and allowed to go undenied by both Rusk and the White House, underscored the kind of pressure that the new Mr. and Mrs. Smith knowingly accepted...
...signifies that the children, unable to separate reality and fantasy, now feel guilty for the death, as if they had willed it. In the film's most subtle and affecting sequence, Warrendale focuses on the grieving faces of children at the cook's funeral. There is a hint here that these innocent, awkward, suffering creatures are at last inching closer to normal human response-thus providing this powerful movie with that most elusive of cinematic conclusions, the truly happy ending...
...become not merely an easy but an enviable thing to do. For little money down and years to pay the balance, an Iowa farmer or Rhode Island schoolteacher can acquire without seeing it a small strip of Florida that is bound to quadruple in value-or so the salesmen hint, using a Will Rogers slogan, "Buy land, they're not makin' it any more." Art has become as much of a speculative exercise as an esthetic experience; collectors have bought millions of dollars worth of art works, often in hope that the purchase will increase in value...
...will also be given the correct term for a 1 28th note in music (quasihemidemisemiquaver, or semi-hemidemisemiquaver). Good sport that he is, Borgmann asks his fans for suggestions. How about this: What is the significance of this series: 8, 14, 23, 28, 34, 42, 49, 57? Hint: any straphanger on the New York BMT subway can see the answer pass before his eyes...