Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London Daily Mail that took the hint. Its editors simply tracked down a Londoner with a subscription to the South African paper and lifted the story, then splashed it across the front page. Editorialized the London paper: "Now Gandar awaits the knock on the door in the darkness at noon which is moving across South Africa. For this is the testing time for those journalists and editors in that country who have risked jail and intimidation to keep their press free...
...portfolio of U.S. securities that Britain is gradually converting into bonds and time deposits. Callaghan sought no official commitment of new support from the U.S., but a communique issued by him and Secretary Fowler spoke of the "identity of interests" between the world's two reserve currencies, a hint to some that the U.S. would provide additional credits to tide the pound over any temporary crisis...
...First hint of disaster in the once tranquil Castellamare section came two months ago when the pavement started cracking up. Then the whole hillside started moving. Before it slowed down early this month, terra infirma was going west at the rate of 5 ft. an hour. The slide should have come as no surprise. Similar disasters have destroyed hundreds of homes in the region since 1956, prompting repeated official warnings against building on hills and in canyons. But even though insurance companies have refused to reimburse homeowners for damage due to earth slippage, builders and buyers still compete for high...
...miles north of New York City. She sold a few verses to The New Yorker, then got a plaintive note from Fiction Editor Katherine White: "Dear Miss McGinley: We are buying your poem, but why do you sing the same sad songs all lady poets sing?" Phyllis took the hint, began turning out light and amusing verse...
...Lopez at Cleveland, "Al could write the text on the mechanics of pitching. Why you use a certain pitch. When you use it. What pitch should follow another. Why it should follow." Lopez often signals for specific pitches himself, wastes no time yanking his starters at the first hint of trouble. In one game last year, Chicago's Joe Horlen had a four-hit shutout going after seven innings. "Good job," said Lopez, and packed him off to the showers. He called in Gary Peters to pitch the eighth inning, then sent for Wilhelm...