Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That should have been a hint to the assembled newsmen, but it escaped them. Harry Bridges was on the way back to San Francisco, presumably because he had been unable to reach a settlement of the Hawaiian waterfront strike. The newsmen, the longshoremen and Bridges stood talking idly a few minutes more. Harry was expecting a phone call, he said. Finally the airport loudspeaker blared out that Bridges' plane was loading. "Well," said Harry, "there hasn't been any phone call so here it is." He cocked a foot up on a nearby bench and began talking slowly...
...Russian audience. They also discovered that there were three other similar pictures current, one of them Shkola Nenavisti (The School of Hate), which was about the Irish rebellion. They found, further, that all four films, although they had soundtracks in Russian, were simply described as "foreign films," without hint of origin. The prevalence of blond Teutonic types led to a search of Dr. Goebbels' files. It turned out that Die Letzte Runde and The School of Hate (in German, Mein Leben fü Irland) were Nazi war-hate films, and that they had had their premi...
Unless the distinguished guest so requested, there would be no conferences of high state, no thought of pressure or promises, no hint of alliances or pacts, no talk of loans or investments. In a packed 3½ weeks' schedule, Nehru would speed from Washington to San Francisco, look in at New York and other cities, speak at the universities of Chicago, California and Wisconsin, inspect farms and factories, Mount Vernon, Hyde Park, the National Gallery of Art, TVA and White Sulphur Springs. The big emphasis would be on getting him acquainted with the productive panorama of U.S. life...
...First Hint of Strategy...
...first hint a student receives of this is his arrival on the campus. There is no hazing to indoctrinate the newcomer in "spirit," nor does he spend his first few days facing a barrage of tests. He steps off the train and is welcomed by a special committee of sophomores. He sees a big sign in the station "Welcome Freshmen." He is guided to the campus, where his first days contain welcoming speeches, a big dance, meetings with advisers, exchange dinners with the girls' dorms, a tour around the "Farm," a varsity football game, and a barbecue supper...