Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly a poet of ability, he has not yet reached the stature of one whose second best work is very much sought after. The poems are, however, readable, if not enjoyable. Kozol's opaque bit, "The Lady's Body," has a peculiar melody, but the content is more a hint than a whole for at least one reader...
...trade with the Middle East, stood opposed to forceful action yet reported gloomily that the British and French seemed in dead earnest about closing in on Nasser. Italy sent Ambassador Giovanni Fornari flying to Cairo with an urgent appeal to Nasser to soften his stand, sweetened it with a hint of big Italian construction help (FIAT) on the Aswan...
...crumbling ruin of broken marble and ashes by invading hordes of Herulian barbarians from the north. During the 18-odd centuries that followed, its remains were lost beneath the accumulation of ages, and the once lively Agora itself became a depressing shantytown whose drab life gave no hint of past glories. In 1922, with the help of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Greek government decided to do something about it. It took nearly a decade to complete the necessary arrangements, and the work, once begun, was interrupted by war. But by 1946, with the help...
Taking the Hint. Later in the week, when the 15 prisoners were released on a $1,000 bond each, Henry told them that the guard would not interfere in anything that happened between them and photographers waiting outside the town jail. The released prisoners took the hint. While guardsmen watched, the photographers were left to defend themselves in a free-swinging sidewalk brawl. When the newsmen angrily protested being denied protection on a public street, Henry barked: "I don't have to defend myself to you people...
...Hibbler, 41, has been a professional singer for 20 years, including an eight-year stretch as vocalist with Duke Ellington, but it is only in the past year that he has caused mass ecstasy. He has a thick, almost syrupy voice with both a hint of maudlin sentimentality and a dash of satirical humor. He is a Negro and has been blind from birth. Al's blacksmith father sent him to the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock, where he sang soprano until he was 17. Long before he graduated, in 1936, he had memorized every nuance...