Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Banging his fist on his desk, Nehru declared that NATO is "a powerful protector of colonialism," which has had the "gross impertinence" to hint to India that it would protect Portuguese Goa. "We should not take any sides in the cold war," said Nehru. "It is an intolerable humiliation for any nation of Asia or Africa to degrade itself by becoming a camp follower of one or the other of the power blocs . . . We will not join either bloc because that means losing our identity...
...once do the records show Roosevelt arguing on behalf of China's independence, or making the point of China's need for Manchuria's industrial production. There was no hint of the long American recognition of China's independence as the key to stability in Asia. Stalin, in the imperialist tradition of the czars, remembered Port Arthur; Roosevelt forgot John Hay and the Open Door...
...when the mania exhausted his patience, Quebec's Premier Alexandre Taschereau ordered provincial police to raid the halls where marathons were being held. So far there has been no hint of another crackdown. A few Catholic priests have preached about irreligious berceurs who stick to their rockers and miss Sunday Mass. But Premier Maurice Duplessis, who was at home last week coddling a cold, was reportedly planning no action. "What could Mr. Duplessis say?" asked Solicitor General Antoine Rivard. "He's rocking himself at the moment...
...challenge for U.S. capital (which already adds up to a fat $6 billion in Latin America) is to build the plants to supply this expanding market. As a hint of the high earnings that are possible, Grace cited the interest on commercial bank loans that businessmen in Latin America are willing and able to pay: Brazil, 9%-12%; Peru, 9%-10%; Mexico 9½% (v. an average 3% in the U.S.). And he neatly disposed of the standard objections to investing in Latin America...
This helpful hint is offered by a 12th century bestiary, compiled by an anonymous monk and dusted off by British Novelist T. H. White (The Sword in the Stone). The work is a charming illustration of how medieval man's other-worldly eye rested on the wonders of nature. As natural history, the book shows astonishingly small powers of observation of even familiar barnyard animals ("the virility of horses is extinguished when their manes are cut"). Armchair hunters will be pleased to read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair...