Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the program they endorsed was not particularly novel, it did make 60 specific recommendations in the fields of law enforcement, education, slum rebuilding and job opportunities that would make slum life more tolerable. While eschewing any hint of political oneupmanship, Rockefeller's bold call for state action undoubtedly helped to solidify his position as the leading spokesman for the G.O.P. on urban problems and one of the few national politicians who have any real understanding of ghetto conditions...
...halt. Israel responded with a little psychological warfare, as policemen painted warning symbols on the shutters of shops belonging to striking Arabs, arrested two prominent Jordanians as the ringleaders and summarily sentenced them to three months in prison. Elsewhere too, the Israelis are responding with measured toughness to any hint of trouble. In Bethlehem, 40 suspected members of El Fatah, the. Syrian-trained terrorist organization, were arrested as they met in a cafe. And throughout the new terri tories, Israeli soldiers continued their house-to-house search for arms. If so much as a pistol is found under a mattress...
...take a Borgmann favorite, the etymological redundancy - ouija, for example, which consists of the French oin and the German ja, both meaning yes. What about a quadruple redundancy? For a hint, Borgmann aims his reader toward southwest England. After a few dutiful hours of brain racking, it is permissible to turn to the answers in the back of the book. In The Story of English, writes Borgmann, Mario Pei mentions a ridge near Plymouth called Torpenhow Hill. "This name consists of the Saxon tor, the Celtic pen, the Scandinavian haugr (later transformed into how) and the Middle English hill...
...story is full of opportunities for drama, but the audience has only the script's word that The Naked Runner is a suspense film. Other than swiveling a pair of nervous ferret eyes, Sinatra shows no hint of emotion. Around him are a cast of inept unknowns, many of whom seem to believe that such dialogue as "Get dressssed, ve are goink for a drive," is German for sinister. Director Sidney Furie confuses tension and pretension, hokes up the story with odd-angle camera shots-of a man bicycling alone across a huge airstrip, a confrontation with the enemy...
...that might be appropriate for the future"-meaning, presumably, a return to the Commonwealth as an in dependent state. At week's end, Adams flew to New York on a fund-raising mission and announced that he even hopes to confer with President Johnson in Washington. One further hint of the island's thinking: its new national anthem has been set to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic...