Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumblings. Roger Blough first broke a long silence on the subject last July by stating flatly that prices are "not as high as they should be." Next, Bethlehem's Chairman Edmund F. Martin expressed dissatisfaction with the earnings of the second-biggest steel firm and planted a broad hint: "We are still looking at the price situation...
...auditors. And to open the third session, he planned to celebrate a pontifical Mass together with 24 bishops from around the world. Concelebration is an ancient practice restored to the Roman rite by the second session's far-reaching liturgical constitution; it is also a not-so-subtle hint of his support for the progressive idea of collegiality-the theory that the bishops share ruling power over the church with the Pope...
...fast, too young. He advanced his policy (which Snow clearly thinks is good and has in fact been urging publicly for years) a decade too early for a party still reluctant to accept the meaning and the political consequences of the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. There was a hint of scandal over a mistress. He was sandbagged by civil servants, deserted by a key Tory supporter grown jealous of his success. But in the end, Narrator Eliot makes clear, there was no one reason for his defeat...
...years in office," boasted McNamara, the U.S. has developed "the greatest military power in human history-with a capability to respond to every level of aggression across the entire spectrum of conflict." Tax Cuts. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon provided the tastiest vote-getting testimony of all: a hint of tax cuts to come, provided, of course, you-know-who is returned to office. The U.S., said Dillon, was enjoying "the best period of peacetime prosperity in our entire modern history," and he suggested that cuts in excise taxes should be possible by next year. It turned out that the Administration...
...Johnson this year-a prediction confirmed by a Hearstman who sits in the chain's policymaking councils. Scripps-Howard's 17 papers, which also backed Nixon last time, haven't yet had their say. But in conversation last week President Jack R. Howard dropped a broad hint. "We endorsed Johnson as the Democratic nominee in 1960," he said, "because many of the things he stood for were the things that we stand for. You can certainly evaluate that as a factor in our decision this year...