Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High-Priced Heavens. Skeptics dismissed the little (5 ft. 2 in.) Father as a charlatan or a simple lunatic. Yet he was an upright man, both generous and just There was not a hint of racial militancy or Black Muslim arrogance in his organization; fully 25% of his worshipers were white...
Signs of Sag. The underlying irony in the current cutback campaign is that only last June the President's experts saw serious signs of sag in the economy, persuaded him to engineer a $3.4 billion excise tax cut and to hint at another slash in income taxes aimed at stimulating business activity next year. Now, by contrast, some officials are beginning to talk guardedly of a tax increase in 1966 if Viet Nam gets much more expensive. Thus far, the talk is muted, for no Administration likes to contemplate tax boosts in an election year...
Doar said that local authorities were cooperating "almost 100%" in Georgia and Alabama, but were still resisting in some parts of Mississippi and Louisiana. But even a hint of federal intervention was often enough to make local registrars see the light. In Mississippi's Lauderdale County, where a calculated slowdown limited Negro registration to under 80 a day, a pair of Justice Department agents came by for a look in response to N.A.A.C.P. complaints. As if by magic, Lauderdale's registrars enrolled 300 Negroes in that one day, and have been accepting applicants at the higher rate ever...
...even before REP could be released, there was an ominous hint that the mission might be going sour once more. In the final minutes of the first revolution, as Gemini 5 came within range of the Guaymas tracking station in Mexico, Astronaut Pete Conrad made a calm, almost routine report. The pressure, he said, was dropping in the fuel cells' oxygen supply. The gauge that normally should have read 800 to 900 Ibs. per sq. in. was dropping fast. Since the fuel cells were the main source of power for the spacecraft's communications, computer and environment control...
...collected from family friends or at cocktail parties and business lunches. But an admissions director deluged with reference letters may observe the old rule of thumb that "a thick folder indicates a thick boy." An edge is conceded to parents with prominent names or prominent bank accounts; yet any hint that they are trying to buy their way in, explains Henry D. Tiffany Jr., headmaster of Allen-Stevenson, "is practically the kiss of death...