Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen had left the White House elaborately sworn to secrecy. But the next day's morning newspapers carried a hint of the news. Evening papers carried a little more: a ''leak" from London. The Foreign Office had informed Washington that Great Britain, her economy nearly wrecked, could no longer maintain the security of Greece. That had been the subject of the White House conference. The story unfolded with no warning thunderclap, but in an atmosphere of such calm that the nation scarcely realized that a crisis had been reached...
Etna, the great hump of Sicily, was just lukewarm then, with an occasional wisp of smoke emanating from its 10,000 foot cone and only the heat still left in old lava flows to hint at its previous activity...
When tragedy struck Purdue Monday night, speculations turned naturally to the seating facilities in the Indoor Athletic Building. "Our stands are 10 years old," said Bill Bingham yesterday. "That's the age of the building, and we've never had any hint of trouble...
...this slump, CABoss Landis had other ideas for helping the weak flyers. Although CAB has not liked airline mergers, on the grounds that they cut down competition, Landis now suggested that mergers might be the best way to keep some airlines out of bankruptcy. More cheering was a strong hint that increases in passenger and mail rates might be in the offing. CABoss Landis sternly warned that "management inefficiency" would not be underwritten by subsidies or higher rates. But at week's end he ordered an investigation to see if current rates are "unjust or unreasonable...
...musk deer. Both men & women once used musk scent straight, but modern perfumers are more subtle: it is now diluted and smothered with flowery fragrances. But its Sunday punch is still there. Musk, or some musklike scent, is the base for most pulse-twitching perfumes, which (as the advertisements hint) "drive men wild...