Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Protection's Hint. Throughout his speech, Kennedy kept his audience of 5,000 listeners rooted to their seats, and some veteran reporters forgot to take notes. Not until he finished was there a great burst of applause and a surge toward the candidate. The Kennedy spell-which he had promised would be cast again, once he had shaken off the legislative frustrations of Washington-was working. It had been that way, increasingly, since Jack Kennedy left Washington and its disappointments behind him the previous day. Barnstorming through his native New England, he encountered larger and more enthusiastic crowds...
...these viruses team with the bacteria to act as a spreading agent is not known, but they do the job so effectively that a single cloud baby can readily infect a whole room and anybody who enters it. The viruses and bacteria do this, says the Journal, "without any hint of a sneeze" to get them airborne. It all adds up to "an almost unbelievable phenomenon...
...daily, clothed him and his family, partly furnished his home. One manufacturer was assigned to take Sternberg's aged parents to dinner almost nightly; the wife of another was pressed into service to supply a home-cooked turkey "whenever the Sternbergs craved fowl." Once Sternberg dropped the hint to one seller that he should assign an employee to push his father's wheelchair. Sternberg's total take: an estimated quarter of a million...
...Goldwater, having made a ringing speech on behalf of G.O.P. senatorial candidates two nights before, now rose to withdraw his name, but he did not stop there. At that shining moment he held what he wanted most: the attention of millions who would hear the conservative message, including a hint of the conservative dream that today's political parties must some day be realigned into conservatives and liberals. He shot one low blow at the Democrats ("dedicated to the destruction of this country!"). Dramatically, he proclaimed that he was standing with the Republican ticket, but he made no bones...
...over the Senate, Lyndon Johnson back in the slot as majority leader, Kennedy the junior Senator from Massachusetts, and both Kentucky's Thruston Morton, G.O.P. national chairman, and Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Democratic national chairman, in the chamber. New York Republican Senator Kenneth Keating gave a hint of problems to come when he tauntingly offered to assist Jack Kennedy in writing the platform's wide-open civil rights promises into law. Huffed Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger: "If Senator Keating will read the Democratic platform, he will find the bulk of it relates...