Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stifling courtroom heat, Judge Swango permitted shirtsleeved informality, but he permitted no looseness with the law. The jurors were carefully questioned; many who disclosed some obvious hint of prejudice were excluded...
...expected good things of him. The Cyprus case, his first solo venture in diplomacy, represented a chance to recoup. But the Foreign Secretary made no advance soundings of either the Greeks or the Turks, was taken by surprise when the Turks took a vehemently strong position against any hint of eventual self-determination and even against Macmillan's gesture toward home rule for the Cypriots. Far from building toward an agreement between Britain and Greece, the London talks opened old Greek-Turkish wounds and provoked consequences far worse than would have resulted from no talks...
Alabama's Vardaman managed to become a leading figure at the meeting simply by telling of a hint he had had from Ike. In 1951, Vardaman recalled, he had gone to Paris to urge General Eisenhower to run for President, concluding his speech: "General, please do me a favor. Don't try to stop us." At that time, Ike smiled, shook hands, said nothing beyond wishing Vardaman a pleasant voyage home. A few weeks ago, Claude Vardaman went to the White House, reminded the President of their 1951 talk and pointed to the somewhat similar situation existing this...
Last week, halfway through his six-year term of office, President Ruiz Cortines reported to the Mexican Congress-and by radio to the nation-on his progress in solving the great problem of Mexico. His voice was flat, his prose dry. But there was a hint of justified pride in his tone as he ticked off some of the accomplishments of his administration...
Vienna Holiday (Michel Legrand and his orchestra; Columbia LP). The eerie shimmer of the opening bars sounds like trance music in the movies, gives a hint of the nightmare to follow: tricky "improvements" on Strauss waltzes and other Viennese music. French Conductor Legrand painfully paralyzes the originals' lilting three-quarter time till the music sounds every bit as insipid as French popular music itself. A major atrocity that should cause Vienna to break diplomatic relations with Paris...