Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty Indian girl (Linda Darnell) teaches Bill Cody how to write a presentable letter to his pretty Eastern bride-to-be (Maureen O'Hara). Likewise prettily, in a coy ritual with a blanket, they plight their troth. When Bill and his wife break up there is no hint of the fact that he was quite a bronco buster with the ladies, nor does he follow history by accusing his wife of trying to poison him. Notably absent from the picture are his great, mad friend Wild Bill Hickok, the almost equally mad, sure-shot Annie Oakley...
...reflecting roof of electrically charged particles, called the Kennelly -Heaviside layer, which blankets the earth's outer atmosphere. Physicists have measured the height of this layer, varying from 60 to 1,200 mi., by bouncing radio waves off it and catching their echo on a receiver. The first hint of radio's possible usefulness as a ground-level detector came when experimenters noticed that a ship moving between a transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument had three main elements: 1) a short-wave sender-receiver which could bounce back a beam, through clouds...
Very flatly, the U.S. asked touchily neutral Eire to take the Allied side in World War II. Very flatly, Eire said no. That much the Irish, American and British man in the street learned last week. There was only a juicy hint of the scene that was acted when Washington's demand reached the proper desk in Dublin...
...from still another source came a big hint that it was high time the President revealed more of what has been decided. Old (78) Arthur Capper, Senator from Kansas since 1918, is famed as the original Congressman who could keep both ears on the ground at once. Always a litmus-paper test of public opinion, Senator Capper now said, in a tone of irritation rare with him: "Let us have some more information −truth if you want to call it that about what was agreed on at Moscow and Teheran...
...Dividends. Reports from the consumer industries were still sparse last week. One hint of the trend: gross sales of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. ballooned to a new high of $414,263,939. But profits were down...