Word: hinting
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...church cannot want any of its sons to suffer," he said, "and it is to be supposed that an Argentine exiled from his country lives in suffering." At week's end part of the front of Plaza's house was blasted off by unknown bomb setters-a hint of the passions the politically ambitious archbishop is unleashing...
...takeover in China, Premier Chou En-lai complained: "The imperialists ridicule our adjusted 1959 plan as a 'big leap backward' . . . Obviously, it is a continued great leap forward on the basis of the exceptionally big leap forward [the year before]." Last week, quick to take a hint, Peking's trained-seal statisticians announced in advance the overfulfillment of 1959 targets...
...deposed as the Paramount Chief of Wenchi, and last June had himself installed as the yeferiheni (head) of the Wenchi royal family. Finally, Nkrumah got his chance to eliminate Busia himself when the opposition leader announced that he was leaving for a lecture tour of Europe. The government broadly hinted that if Busia ever came back, he might be thrown into jail under Ghana's egregious Preventive Detention Act. Busia took the hint (TIME, July 13), decided to stay abroad, and all that was left for Nkrumah to do was to get his own stooge elected to Busia...
With the case awaiting grand jury action in Boston, police tightened the lid on their evidence, except to hint about a batch of love letters (presumably from someone other than Van Rie) and Lynn's diary. On that basis the murder trial-if it comes to that-should be one of the most sensational in a long while...
...rebels were still insisting that if France wanted a cease-fire in the five-year-old Algerian civil war, it must deal directly with their "provisional government." but this De Gaulle had barred from the beginning. Equally unacceptable to Paris was Abbas' scorn for De Gaulle's hint that Algeria might be partitioned to protect the right of French settlers and the rebel leader's suggestion that no vote to settle Algeria's future could be valid so long as the French army remained there...