Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever he went, me Bishop made friends. He learned to preach to Papuan natives in their own tongue. Australians liked his lack of "side." He carefully avoids any hint of the stuffed shirt: "When I was the dean of [Oriel] my colleagues used to write to me as 'the not-very-reverend Dean...
...Said the Little Steel formula would stand-at least until prices and wages have been studied further. This was the first hint to organized labor that there might be a break in Little Steel before fall...
...more at San Francisco than to establish the constitutional basis upon which the world can live without war-if it will." Preamble & Purposes. The original charter drafted at Dumbarton Oaks by the U.S., Britain, Russia and China had no preamble, hardly a mention of justice, almost no hint of human aspirations. It was the lowest common denominator of Big Power concessions. The charter writ ten at San Francisco contains a significant but at present unenforceable bill of human rights. The equality of all states is solemnly affirmed, although the whole structure of the organization denies...
Even the wisest of the dopesters was ready to admit that this was" a guess. The President had dropped no hint of what he planned, and neither had canny, sharp-eyed Jimmy Byrnes himself. But there was plenty of reason for believing that Byrnes, who had resigned a few days before Franklin Roosevelt's death (partly because of a huff over the three-votes-for-Russia deal at Yalta), was going back to work...
...they caught fire. Dr. William J. Crozier, a Harvard physiologist, suspected that the magnesium-alloy parts blew up when they were doused by the carbon dioxide in the automatic fire extinguishers. Tests proved him right, and combat crews were immediately instructed to use their extinguishers at the first slight hint of fire, or not at all. Later, aluminum alloys were substituted for the magnesium-alloy parts...