Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that, smile as we may at its follies, or denounce...
...hint of provincialism in Richter's earlier style had at first deterred critics from such bold appraisals. For years he was known beyond the Soviet bloc only in legends that told of a pianistic Paul Bunyan who played 120 concerts a year, every one of them good enough to make Beethoven weep. When he appeared at last-46 years old and bald-his mastery of the Russian technique was so impressive that he made its vices into astonishing virtues...
...pushing south from Canada, has begun marketing Red Rose in border areas such as New England, northern New York and the Pacific Northwest. So far, Red Rose's best U.S. market has turned out to be Boston. Says Brooke Bond Sales Director Roy Furber with only a hint of a smile: "I suppose it goes back to that famous tea party...
...somewhat bizarre and distorted atmosphere that prevails in Washington. No other Administration has so single-mindedly followed the proposition that "news is a weapon" (see PRESS). No other President has maintained such close personal contacts with newsmen. Aware of the Kennedy method of the indirect nudge, the planted hint, the push by newspaper column, students of the Administration follow the work of Kennedy's favorite columnists as faithfully as Kremlinologists plod through Pravda's prose. And of all Washington newsmen, Charlie Bartlett is closest to Kennedy...
...planets have come to life too. Venus sends waves which hint that the temperature under its clouds is much too high for earth-type life. Jupiter pulsates with many kinds of radio waves. One kind comes from an easily observable shell...