Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Scammon's expert guidance. The book's refreshing and detailed conclusion is that the current proliferation of "capital-lettered afflictions" is largely a mirage. Wattenberg writes: "There is a balanced, historical view available that can better tell us where we have been, where we stand, and hint at where we are going. The approach is not nearly as melodramatic, to be sure, but it has a redeeming feature: it comes closer to the truth." Highlights of Wattenberg's U.S.A...
...hostile Republicans, and the two groups eyed one another dangerously. "Leave them alone," Demirel cried to his friends. "If they want to kill me, let them. I shall die for the nation." His antics prompted ailing President Cemal Gursel, 70, head of the junta that overthrew Menderes, to hint that if Demirel tries strong-arm tactics now or after the election, the military will force him to desist. "We are not a mature nation," said Gursel. "We take many roads, legal and illegal and sometimes dangerous, to exploit the people. I promise that no one ever again will have enough...
There is just one trouble. The plan offers barely a hint of how all this can be done...
...industrial revolution was born in 18th century England, and British working attitudes hardly seem to have changed since. Nowadays petulant, cosseted and truculent, British labor will down tools at the merest hint of any slight or insult. It will jealously defend a host of obsolete prerogatives and work practices that are the despair of man agement efforts at efficiency-and often of labor union leaders themselves. This year alone, Britain's auto industry, main stay of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's export push to bolster the sickly pound, has already been hit by 109 separate strikes equaling...
...very threat of inflation often attracts investors afraid that their money will erode elsewhere and tends to give the market that boomy feeling. Though most economists agree that inflation is no serious threat to the economy right now, Wall Streeters believe that they have begun to sniff a hint of it in the air. Every warning about its dangers-such as the current statement by the New York Federal Reserve Bank that the economy "is clearly vulnerable to inflationary pressures"-seems only to strengthen the scent. Last week this "inflation syndrome," plus some good news about the economy, combined...