Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Veto Hint. It was the tax credit that threw Democratic liberals together with Republican conservatives against the Administration. Kerr's stand against a move to kill the credit was supported, 52-30, with some vital help from Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (see cover story), who rounded up G.O.P. votes...
...would be most difficult to assemble here a pickup team that would offer any challenge at all to such a redoubtable group as yours." Last week, when the British winkers met the likes of S. J. Perelman and Stage Director-Producpr Mike Ellis in Bucks County, there was a hint of opposition. Perelman lost with a debonair, hand-in-pocket flair; Ellis' keen squidging eye and steady wrist made him one of the few Yanks who avoided a shutout...
Worn-Out Carpets. At the first hint of the shortening day, light bulb sales zoom -even before the bulbs are really needed...
...early in the morning, Byrd for years used to crawl on his belly through a hole in the fence. Then the hole was patched. Byrd hesitantly asked if he might have his own key to the gate-something the Park Service would have granted long ago at the slightest hint. "I got 'em to put in the Shenandoah Park when I was Governor. It was the Depression then, but I got a million dollars out of Congress, and we raised another million. Ickes wouldn't let the mountain people stay in there. He made them all move...
There are still too many unknowns for NASA scientists to make an irreversible decision. But Holmes smiles with a hint of apology, "We have to choose some plan, or we'd better pack up and go home." Then he turns intensely serious. "We can't change too often though. It costs too much money." He picks from his desk a child's china bank in the shape of a rocket. When he puts a nickel in the slot, the coin falls right out through the open bottom. "A friend gave me this," he says, "to keep...