Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delaware, one of 17 states with Jim Crow laws, announced that it would admit Negro students to the University of Delaware to any course not offered by the Delaware State College for Negroes. The trustees said they had taken the hint from the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Ada Sipuel case (TIME...
...Sierra Madre" does end happily, but only after one of the characters has been killed and the gold returns to the earth. It is a theme with a number of rather obvious allegorical possibilities concerning the doings of both men and nations, and this unusual picture manages to hint at them painlessly, without verbosity or undue lengthiness...
...dealings with Congressmen, belligerently denounced the Knutson bill as inflationary, deficit-producing and, in short, "a major threat to the nation's financial integrity." Chairman Knutson reacted by subjecting his witness to a day-Jong badgering. Other Republicans were quick to realize that John Snyder was broadening a hint already made by the President: the Knutson bill, as it stood, would be vetoed. Good & scared, they began to talk of bringing the tax slash down to around $4 billion. At week's end, tax-wise Muley Doughton conceded that such a modification might well pick up enough Democratic...
From strike-racked Paris last week, Republican Foreign Policy Expert John Foster Dulles directed an urgent hint toward Washington. Communist efforts to wreck Europe's economy, he said, would convince Congress more than ever of Europe's desperate need for help. His hint was sharpened almost daily by new reports of Communist violence, sabotage, street battles and wrecked trains. But Dulles' congressional colleagues did not seem to hear. Congress was bogged down in dawdling and delay...
Plato & Slang. It was true. By his own admission, the Abbé Lorent always carries "at least" one loaded revolver when he leaves his house. He is 37, small, slight, black-haired, blue-eyed. In his sensitive mouth and finely carved features there is a hint of fanaticism and ruthlessness. The son and grandson of coal miners, Lorent taught a parish school before the war, had a brilliant record in the Front National, in which Catholics and Communists fought the Germans side by side. In his marked northern accent he quotes from Cardinal Newman and Plato, but he also uses...