Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hints of Great Enterprise. "What is generally understood by 'the Truman Doctrine' was never thoroughly popular in France. The doctrine seemed too brutal, even if logically brutal. It seemed to consecrate the ineptitude of the U.N. organization, and above all it seemed a negative policy. Le plan Marshall does not have these drawbacks for the French-this is something with a ring of nobility, a hint of great enterprise, something constructive which combines realism and humanism in a manner the French find irresistible...
British scientists found last year that IPC killed certain grain plants. U.S. scientists took the hint and tried the stuff on quackgrass, alias witchgrass, one of the peskiest weeds in the northern U.S. As little as 10 lbs. an acre, Agriculture reports, does the deed, killing even the nine-lived underground stems (stolons) which generations of farmers have grubbed from the soil by hand...
Chevigny expects to be "a going concern" as a radio writer "at least until television takes over." His skill is backed by a cold nose for the main chance: he sold NBC on his Plays by Ear, partly by the shrewd hint that a blind writer for an invisible medium makes not only good sense but also good publicity copy...
...hint of the "tact" and "skill" Dean Hanford used in his personal relations with wayward students was reported in the Alumni Bulletin...
...anthology consists almost entirely of aphorisms and paragraphs culled from the three volumes of Unspoken Sermons. The items add up neatly to 365. Readers would do well to take the hint: like most such gem-collections, this little book would make a better year's than an evening's reading. Samples...