Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Commons, the Rhodesians waited grimly to hear the details. From his headquarters in Lusaka, Kaunda ordered his black followers to lay in stocks of food for a general strike should the draft prove unsatisfactory. Sir Roy fumed that he would "go the whole hog"-a hint of armed force-if Britain's terms appeared to endanger what he regards as his personal domain. Said he: "The federation is mine." When the news finally arrived, Sir Roy exploded. "This is not good enough." he roared, ordering; a London-bound BOAC Comet in mid-flight to stop in Salisbury...
...sources of his fascination with technology lie in a fervid desire to create a world in which peace is possible and in which man can pursue his interests and desires wtih far greater freedom than known today. His writings only hint at this humanity; for only in his frequent use of conception-pregnancy-birth metaphors does a humane tone hesitatingly emerge...
Wilson was using Borchard, Gene Augustine, Joe Deering, and sophomores Lenny Strauss and Bob Inman as a unit in practice yesterday, which might be a hint. Strauss, the leading scorer on last year's freshman team, has played in only 14 of the team's 20 games and scored 33 points...
What has happened, says Getlein, is that the variations possible to abstraction are running out. The oldtimers of abstraction are only repeating themselves, and their disciples will do the same. The genuinely novel paintings at the Whitney were paintings that show at least a hint of image-some sand dunes by Karl Knaths ("Naturally, we all knew about dunes anyway, but we didn't know about these dunes"), a Pietà by Abraham Rattner "that compares with the last sculptures on that theme by Michelangelo." a standing nude by Raphael Soyer ("We see freshly the tired flesh, the dull...
Some pastors play up the tithers' tax benefits: federal laws allow the taxpayer to deduct up to 30% of gross income as church charity. There are a few ministers who hint at even greater financial benefits. A classic example occasionally cited: Oilman Charles Page, who when down on his luck was told by a Salvation Army lassie that he would prosper if he tithed. Starting by giving her 15? out of his last dollar, Page promised to tithe, eventually struck oil. "I couldn't miss," he used to say after he had made his pile...