Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President gave a hint of this last week at his press conference. A correspondent, remembering Mr. Roosevelt's plan to confer with Winston Churchill "about" every three months, asked if he hoped to see the Prime Minister soon. Oh yes, the President replied, he hoped to, either in summer-or autumn-or late spring. "What about winter?" the correspondent asked. Fianklin Roosevelt replied that he did not like the North lantic in winter...
Last week the exiled Governments of Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands signed postinvasion agreements with the U.S. and Britain. Russia signed only with Norway, an open hint that the Red Army might want to cross the top of Finland to carry on the war with Germany. It was also a suggestion that Russia, with belligerent Finland and Russophobe Sweden on her doorstep, wanted a long-term friend in Scandinavia. The Norwegians seemed willing...
...Lest the hint escape, Pravda chimed in briskly: "The time has arrived to inflict devastating blows in the west as well...
...some of the tawdry shimmer of Cairo. Though only 50 miles from the war, life had grown easy. The sea was warm, spring flowers were out, well-dressed girls appeared on the crowded sidewalks, restaurateurs and private citizens unearthed hidden stocks of liquor; hurdy-gurdies were playing. Taking a hint from the tactical situation, staff officers began to stabilize working hours, began to grouse at war's overtime...
Plainly the men around King Peter were up against tremendous odds in their drive to rehabilitate Mihailovich and the cause of the strongly nationalist Serbs. To make their problem harder, Tito's sponsors in Moscow threw out a blunt hint, via War & The Working Class: "It is high time . . . the Governments of the United Nations broke off diplomatic relations with the bankrupt group of Yugoslav officials and police in Cairo who represent nobody but themselves. It is high time to recognize [Tito's] Government...