Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lesson Learned. The Germans took the hint. They broke up Panzer divisions and teamed tanks with more infantry support. Last year, against Montgomery in Africa, Rommel cut his armored divisions in half, merged them into task forces with infantry...
...Thunder rolls on the Potomac when reference is made to Curmudgeon Ickes' middle name. Spelled sometimes Le Clair, sometimes Le Claire or LeClare, the correct spelling has never been discovered. Ickes intimates who have put the question, and survived, hint that LeClare is Ickes' most-favored version of his mosthated name...
...hint of waxing Jap air power appeared in the South Pacific last week. For months only handfuls of Japanese raiders had stung Allied bases in New Guinea and the Solomons. Suddenly they swarmed out in force. Twenty-six bombers and eleven fighters struck at Wau, the airfield closest to Jap-held Salamaua. Forty raiders attacked Oro Bay south of Buna. Jap air strength, waning at the end of 1942, seemed to be surging back...
...Hint. At Fort Bliss, Tex., Private Harry Hammond, who had made excuses to a girl friend for not writing or telephoning more frequently, got a present from her: a homing pigeon...
...British and Dominion correspond ents in North Africa last week got a letter from war-hard, polite General Sir Harold Alexander, General Eisenhower's Commander of Land Forces. It contained: 1) words of caution; 2) a hint of the coming Allied offensive. It said...