Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Signals. The peace hopes had grown out of a well-hedged hint, dropped three weeks ago by Hanoi's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh, that Hanoi "could" discuss peace terms - provided the U.S. stopped bombing the North, permanently and unconditionally. The Administration reacted warily. After all, in the past two years, U.S. officials figure that they have detected and dissected some 200 diplomatic signals concerning negotiations...
...changed not at all. If Lurleen Wallace, standing in the same spot as Davis and taking her gubernatorial oath on the same Bible, felt any sense of inadequacy about sounding the same shopworn theme-or even the slightest sense of deja vu-her inaugural address last week gave no hint of it whatsoever...
...President took his keynote theme from Lincoln: "We must ask 'where we are and whither we are tending.'" Indeed, until Johnson actually began to speak, almost no one had any notion whither he would tend. Newsmen got no hint of the President's plans during his long, sequestered sojourn at the L.B.J. ranch. At the White House, security precautions were so rigid that reporters were barricaded out of hearing range of the typing pool so that they could not eavesdrop on secretaries proofreading the speech aloud. Johnson held his options open until the eleventh hour, ordering innumerable...
...view of his stridently racist campaign, was the subdued, even soporific tone of the new Governor's inaugural address in Atlanta. Speaking to a crowd of several hundred-including a little old lady in red tennis shoes-gathered in 32° weather, Maddox, 51, pointedly avoided any hint of bigotry. Promising to follow the progressive policies of outgoing Governor Carl Sanders, he declared: "There is no necessity for any conflict to arise between federal-state authority. We should-and we can-solve any disagreements under the framework of the Constitution, respecting the authority of the national Government, and being...
...room. When it came to a vote, the twelve-man board was split down the middle. Trying for compromise, they told Evans that while Chapin and Luneburg could replace Abernethy, the company had little cash to spare for three top-level salaries. Evans got the hint, and bowed out with Abernethy...