Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During World War II, doctors in The Netherlands and Scandinavia noted a curious fact: despite the stresses of Nazi occupation, the death rate from coronary artery disease was slowly dropping. Not until long after the war-1950, in fact-did they get a hint of the reason. That year, Sweden's Haqvin Malmros showed that the sinking death rate neatly coincided with increasingly severe restrictions on fatty foods. That same year the University of California's Dr. Laurance Kinsell, timing oxidation rates of blood fats, stumbled onto the discovery that many vegetable fats cause blood cholesterol levels...
...Mark, while he was with Peter in Rome, wrote ''an account of the Lord's doings" that presumably was the basis of his Gospel as it is now known. But he withheld those "doings" which only the initiated should have knowledge of and did not even hint ''at the ones pertaining to the mysteries." After Peter's death, writes Clement, Mark went to Alexandria with Peter's notes on Jesus, from which he "transferred to his former book the things suitable to progress toward knowledge." Even in this "secret Gospel" Mark left...
There was, of course, no hint of foul play in the reports from Trujilloland. But the terrible deaths of the three sisters and their driver-who presumably was considered expendable-would be something for the 14th of June underground to think about...
...seriously. He is much more appropriate in the role of court jester to the 20th century, jingling the bells of dying ideologies and feudal theories, and giggling insanely at the reality in front of him. Never mind the world, Senator, on with the show--with just a slight hint of tragedy behind the charade in case any take it literally...
...Baggage Truck, he is a major character, a young publicity man who avoids, mostly by luck, becoming the pet poodle of an aging actress. Malloy is an observer in the next book, Imagine Kissing Pete, concerning an adulterous marriage that worked better than expected. There is a hint in this one of sentimentality, a quality to which the 20th century reacts as the 19th did to sex-with outward shock masking secret delight-and in O'Hara's hands the flavor is pleasant...