Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...over Ceylon-a volatile land that boasts the highest homicide rate in Asia. But next day, as Banda's like-minded colleague, Education Minister Wijayananda Dahanayake, took over the premiership, a strange quiet settled over the country. Taxis, buses and cars flew mourning flags of white; the only hint of violence lay in a rising wave of public feeling against the Buddhist clergy. In Colombo a two-mile-long queue waited five hours in the scorching sun to pass by Banda's coffin in the Rosemead Place bungalow. At first the police refused to admit them...
...glory and-last and least-devotion. It was believed that Napoleon had 6,000,000 francs in Europe (he actually had half of that). Bertrand was perhaps the least self-seeking, but he lost status when Mme. Bertrand refused to become Napoleon's mistress. With or without the hint, Mme. de Montholon was a wily enough schemer to indulge the fallen emperor, and the Montholons got their reward: 2,000,000 francs in Napoleon's will...
Last week museum officials announced that cleaning had uncovered another hint that peasant painter and noble model were indeed lovers. There was a second word, preceding Goya, that had been covered over with paint long ago-presumably by the artist himself. That word is "Solo," Spanish for only...