Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important investment tax-credit bill* sought by business and the Administration. Long simply faced down Senate custom-which dictates that a chairman protect committee bills from outside amendments-and allowed a plethora of fellow Senators' pet projects to be tacked onto the bill. When accused of "hinting" that he was deliberately tying up the tax bill as a strategy to save his Campaign Fund Act, Long boasted: "I did not hint it. I promised it. I promised that would be my course of action...
...observes McClanahan, "is the power of the individual artist to transmit his humanity to it." Says Thomas Tadlock: "We are at a stage now in light that is comparable to music when the first man took a stick and banged on a hollow log." Under the circumstances, even the hint of distant music is to be heralded...
...peninsula with 1,000 police and 600 soldiers, who allowed only accredited newsmen and diplomats to pass roadblocks. Guards stood on rooftops with high-powered rifles and studied the surroundings through binoculars. Security agents monitored each of Punta del Este's 4,000 telephone lines for any hint of possible assassination plots...
...steamers, the sets are routine Broadway. Manos Hadjidakis' diluted bouzouki score is slumberously unvaried, and no number equals the appeal of the repeated Never on Sunday. The dancers spin like zany revolving doors and slap themselves like victims in a mosquito plague, and there is never the faintest hint of those teasingly slow, sinuous Greek male dances that seem to be sculptured...
...masthead, usually two or three incomprehensible paragraphs. The masthead page has always been a bastion of mysterious tradition-who is that smug guy passed out on the keg, anyway? LaFarge has made charming personalities out of the three traditional figures, Ibis, Jester, and Blot. At least we get a hint as to who they are any way they are there. LaFarge has exploited the Castle mystique for all it is worth. His piece is a good example of how to be precious and get away with it. Unfortunately, he doesn't get away with anything in another piece written...