Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train of events which the U.S. had set in motion in North Africa moved ineluctably ahead. How fast it would go, and how far, no man could say. But the nation got a broad hint of the timetable in a significant utterance by future-minded Assistant Secretary-of State Adolf A. Berle...
There was a hint in Göring's speech that because of two bad wartime harvests there would be difficulty in feeding more than "6,000,000 foreign workers in Germany and over 5,000,000 prisoners of war." The fate of starving millions in occupied territories he skipped. On his own food troubles he made no comment. But Turkish fishermen did. They reported that one of Göring's planes visited Istanbul every Thursday and loaded up with lobsters (at $7.50 each) and caviar (at $15 a pound...
...military-minded there are to be found the manuals of most of the armed services of the nation. Possibly some hint of forthcoming military operations can be gleaned from their pages, while for those less technically minded there are books on the more colorful aspects of the war, and Civilian Defense...
...dared hint last week that the Eberstadt-streamlined plan would actually solve the materials mess. Too many other plans that sounded lovely on paper have flopped in practice. But last week there was a good augury for the birth of the new plan. The Production Requirements Committee met to allocate materials to each of the services for the fourth quarter. And for the first time in history the Committee actually allocated no more materials than were known to be available...
...Deal Washington newspaper publisher. She has vague resemblances to the Washington Times-Herald's Cissie Patterson, an overstuffed mansion, an illusory heart ailment, a raffish son (Richard Ney), a musical-comedy daughter (Jean Rogers) and. though the epithet is never directly hurled, there is more than a hint that the Widow Bainter is a Republican. The war against her is waged with practically everything but brass knuckles and a commando raid. It proceeds by a series of psychological crises. Some of them...