Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instrument of your own will. God would judge the importance of the event, not man, and God would give the tongue to speak, if tongue was the organ to be manifested. Everything in McCarthy's manner, his quiet voice, his absolute refusal to etch his wit with any hint of emphasis, his offhand delivery which would insist that remarks about the future of the world were best delivered in the tone you - might employ for buying a bottle of aspirin, gave hint of his profound conservatism...
...Ralph Abernathy to show up for a press conference. "It was a simple emotion and very unpleasant to him," writes Mailer. "He was getting tired of Negroes and their rights. It was a miserable recognition, and on many a count, for if he felt even a hint this way, then what immeasurable tides of rage must be loose in America itself? He was so heartily sick of listening to the tyranny of soul music, so bored with Negroes triumphantly late for appointments, so depressed with Black inhumanity to Black in Biafra, so weary of being sounded in the subways...
Nixon, after a frantic conference with his civilrights squad, seemed to realize his Agnew-like blunder. Two days later, the retraction came. Picking up the hint, Ford led the House Republicans in an effort to overturn the Whitten rider...
Signs at the borders hint at the difference. Coming down on US 427 from Nashville, the traveller passes a small sign saying "Leaving State of Tennessee." On the other side of the road is a mammoth white billboard. WELCOME TO HISTORIC ALABAMA, it says. ALABAMA, CRADLE OF THE CONFEDERACY AND HEART OF DIXIE WELCOMES YOU. At the bottom, in capital letters just as large as the rest, is LURLEEN WALLACE, GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA. It's hard to read LURLEEN, because right underneath it is GEORGE. The Alabama Highway Department has always been embarrassingly short of money, and it didn...
...disturbed by the article on the ideological schism in the Communist world [Sept. 20] and the partially hidden suggestion that Bertrand Russell would "gullibly accept Soviet outrages." After reading several works by and about Lord Russell, I have yet to find even the slightest hint that he condoned the Stalinist purges. In fact in his essay "Why I Am Not a Communist," he states that he believes that Communism's theoretical tenets are false and that Communism would "produce an immeasurable increase of human misery...