Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with your suggestion for pictures embracing any creditable religious background. But you are wrong when you hint at conspiracy or suggest bigotry...
...committee decided that George was all right. Senator Taft and four other Republicans held out, but Administration aids expected the Senate to confirm George without much trouble. In the offing is the chairmanship of RFC-at least, George confided, Harry Truman had made a "thin hint" to that effect...
...crack jokes about himself, a pleasant candor about his own ambitions and finances. He had demonstrated that a good many companies-most of whom find it convenient to be on good terms with Washington-considered him a useful man to have on the payroll. But there was no hint that any of his many previous employers had ever dreamed of making him board chairman of a corporation- much less of a $10½ billion empire such as RFC has become...
Listeners to Zenith's FM station have concluded that FM means free music rather than frequency modulation. Broadcasters who are using too many "grunts . . . yaps [and] burps," McDonald believes, had better take the hint...
...nearly so elaborately produced as some prewar French films (Story of a Cheat, Carnival in Flanders), It Happened at the Inn also lacks much of the expert, offhand humor of its nearest kin, The Baker's Wife. The new French humor has a hint of violence; there is violence, too, in the insistence on being funny. In the old French movies, you could take the jokes or leave them alone. In It Happened at the Inn, the humorous situations are of a sort you must either take or reject. U.S. audiences are likely to reject quite...