Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulldogs, and Dartmouth, an easy foe last year, could give McCurdy's men a difficult time in the coming dual meet on Feb. 6, at Hanover. Freshman Tom Laris, who covered two miles in an unbelievable 9:08.9 to finish third in the K. of C. meet, gives a hint of the Big Green's growing strength...
Probably it has no life at all. Dr. Kuiper thinks that it has no water or free oxygen. Radio waves, which penetrate the murky atmosphere, hint that the temperature of the invisible surface is something like 500° F., which is much too high for the earth's kinds of life. Venus rotates only once in several weeks, making the sunlit side much hotter than the dark side, and causing violent storms that sweep perpetually over its hot, dry deserts...
Washington speculation had been that Dulles' statement, at a news conference Tuesday, was a hint at a shift in the U.S. line aimed to provoke Mikoyan's interest and a change in the Soviet line...
...political battles had withered into listlessness and lack of imagination compared to his heroic days in 1939 (his first year as Republican leader) when, he boasts, "We had only 169 Republicans in the House, and we beat the New Deal in 18 major battles in a row." Some also hint that his warm friendship with Democratic Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn led Martin to compromise on the Republican position more than necessary...
...telling such episodes, Biographer Wheeler-Bennett gives little hint that he wrote his history in the shadow of-and partly inside-Buckingham Palace. An acre of Fabergé eggshells beset the path of the royal (and official) biographer, but Wheeler-Bennett has manfully covered the field to give a picture of a king and a king's-eye view of his times. Apart from inside stuff such as bits of George's conversations with F.D.R. at Hyde Park (where the lordly Roosevelt called him "young man"), the book offers a highly explicit picture of the functions and limitations...