Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working clothes for an evening away from his workbaskets. At a dinner of Democratic Senators celebrating loyal Alben Barkley's ninth year as Majority Leader, the President mixed praise for the job Barkley had done in pushing the Administration's legislative program with a hopeful hint that Congress would get around to passing the rest of it at its next session...
Last week, while waiting for Bowles to make port and make up his mind, Senator McMahon himself passed the lofty hint that it would be a shame for Chester Bowles to waste his abilities outside of Washington. The hint would be passed to Skipper Bowles not long after his boat docked...
...fruits of his crime, the theft of valuable rubies, and waits fifteen years before returning to the scene, having acquired a moustache and a new, naive, wealthy British wife in the interim, to continue his search for the gems. Since the entire scheme, and a broad hint as to the outcome, are brought out in the first act, it takes worthy performances by the murderer and his unsuspecting wife, who is being methodically driven out of her mind by her spouse, to sustain the terror and suspense in Hamilton's lines...
...hint of defeat crept into Manuel Roxas' prepared Independence Day speech to his countrymen. Said he: "In the world of affairs we irretrievably subscribe to the principles enunciated by the great leaders of the American revolution, to the cause and program being led today by the U.S. The system of free but guided enterprise is our system. We will defend it against the ideological onslaughts . . . of anti-democratic creeds. The proponents of these views will be protected in their right to hold and openly advocate them. They will not be protected in subversive schemes to destroy the structure...
...first big post-V-E day demonstration anywhere in Germany was a hint of what might be in store as the conquered came out of the stupor of defeat...