Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans in 299 days, but Verdun was a lesser horror. Not until long after the war, if ever, would the full losses be known. Russia acknowledged that 606,000 men had been lost in three months and declared that 480,000 Germans had been slain. Germany gave no hint of its own losses, but claimed 1,044,741 Russian soldiers had been captured since spring, raising to five million men their total claims of Russian captives...
...last week that the Finns are taking their orders from Berlin, the State Department finally ordered all Finnish consulates in the U.S. closed by Aug. 1. The action will not necessarily lead either to a break in diplomatic relations or to a declaration of war. Indeed it was a hint that the U.S. would like to avoid sterner action. But it was both request and warning to Finland not to join the new big Nazi push on Russia, not to be shoved into an all-out attack on Murmansk...
...Hint. In St. Louis, a shop foreman gave a glaring hint to workers who failed to wear their goggles: he presented them with glass eyes...
Congratulations on "Heydrich's Inferno" . . . a piece of writing almost worthy of the great Dean Swift. This essentially non-Teutonic mixture of humor and hate is another hint that Germany is not going to win this...
...carriers are about the size of U.S.S. Wasp (14,700 tons), 500,000 tons will provide about 34 brand-new carriers. Keel-layings will follow hard on bill-signing, and Chairman Vinson waxes choleric at any hint that shipyards cannot handle the business. This would give the U.S. a total of about 85 good-sized carriers. (A few guessers think that the new carriers will include some of very small tonnage, for fighters only. They would act as scouts and defenders, to protect the big carriers bearing the dive- and torpedo-bombers. If such small carriers are built, the total...