Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington claimed two direct hits on "a Japanese ship that was in the drydock for repairs," an obvious hint that the Japs might soon find naval repairs impossible anywhere south of Japan itself...
...mission had grown out of Eden's pointed hint in a recent House of Commons speech: "We could . . . use our close friendship with these countries [of western Europe] as a buttress to the strengthened general world structure. ... It gives us perhaps more authority with other great powers if we speak for the Commonwealth and for our near neighbors in western Europe" (TIME, Oct. 9). In other words, with the nations of the British Commonwealth and France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, perhaps Norway and Denmark, girded round her, Britain would be a formidable Continental power...
...take a hint next time from some shrewd fellows like Dan Phillips or Bob Shepherd and bring your happiness cast instead of going west yourself. Don welcomed his fiancee, Miss Beth Bidwell, and her mother to old Boston last Saturday. The second thing Beth did was to remark how much Boston reminds her of San Francisco...
...memorandum contained one hint and one joker. The hint: "The present state of things [said the Argentines] creates divisions that are incompatible with the traditional spirit of brotherhood existing among nations bound by proximity, origin and ideals." The U.S. is not near Argentina, does not share, to the Argentine nationalist mind, the same "origin and ideals." Perhaps some Argentines hoped to split the Hemisphere into Latins v. Anglo-Saxons, shove the U.S. toward the doghouse...
...President insists upon handling foreign affairs on the basis of personal, secret diplomacy. The result is today that no one knows what our foreign policy is with respect to Poland, France, Germany, Rumania or other countries of Europe, or for that matter South America or China. We have no hint of what commitments we have made...