Word: hinting
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...slightest hint of Allied troop withdrawals unhinges the West Germans, who do not share their Allies' conviction that the Soviets have grown less aggressive. But the Germans argue that they cannot finance heavy purchases of British and U.S. equipment. Unless they are willing to undergo some belt tightening to raise additional funds, they may be forced to acquiesce to a thinning out of Allied troops...
...however, General de Gaulle's franc is looking a trifle weak on the world's markets. A hint of softness appeared in the last week of August, when the franc slipped from its normal 4.90 to the dollar to 4.91. Then it went down to a rate of 4.944 two weeks ago, and last week it drifted indecisively before closing...
...Vincennes, Ind., in 1842. The Gimbel brothers built bigger stores in Milwaukee and Philadelphia, but "Bernie" insisted that they move to New York, where the real action was. He picked out a $9,000,000 site, and he got Julius Rosenwald, his friend, who was Sears, Roebuck chairman, to hint to the family that if Gimbels was not interested in the property, Sears would...
...little, that the nearby East New York section of Brooklyn blew. Calm had rested on the city like a highly flammable illusion through the record-breaking heat of early July. The Mayor's Office moved in nervously with quantities of community meetings and police re-inforcements at every hint of an outbreak. New Yorkers began to wonder if Lindsay's first summer would end without a baptism of violence in the ghettos. But, looking back, people will associate the summer of '66 with East New York, one of the city's many little-known ghettos, where the traditional Italian population...
...apiece. When Bing decides that an aging singer should retire, he eases the pain with a line he has polished to perfection: "Wouldn't you rather have your public say, 'Already?' than 'At last!' " Of course, if the singer won't take the hint, Bing will fire him without batting...