Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...application of Cincinnati's William S. Merrell Co. for a license to market thalidomide in the U.S. under the trade name Kevadon.* Along with the application came a sheaf of reports on years of animal testing and human use of the drug in Europe. There was no hint that the drug had any undesirable side effects, and Merrell pressed hard for quick approval. But Dr. Kelsey was puzzled because the drug did not put animals to sleep. She wondered about other possible differences between its effects in animals and in man. Dr. Kelsey asked Merrell for more tests...
Furthermore, it is a pleasure to report that the book is not only carefully and logically organized but also well written. (Eble teaches English; and I shan't hold him responsible for the one misspelling I noticed.) It is mercifully free of any hint of the educationisticalized gobbledygook that pervades most books on the subject, and statistics are brought in only when really helpful...
...repeated that the Administration was planning "a tax cut and tax reform next year and we, of course, would prefer to maintain that schedule." But he promised again to keep a close watch on "the basic indicators of the economy," and sounded what seemed to many to be a hint of the future by stressing that demands for a tax cut from both business and labor "should be very seriously considered...
Most actors play Richard as an invertebrate effeminate. There is not a hint of that in Basehart's portrayal. And this has the great virtue of making believable for once Richard's final scene, in which he disarms and slays two attackers before being felled by Exton. As he falls, Basehart manages to wrench the heart when he painfully recognizes his murderer and pronounces his name in surprised disbelief--a moment as touching as Caesar's "Et tu, Brute...
Father or Son? Franco is likely to remain silent on the succession. He is playing a rather coy game with Don Juan and his family, dropping a hint here, a favor there, without committing himself...