Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laurels must go to Simon, who was in perfect voice, with ne'er a hint of a rough-edged tone. His diction, in four languages, was always impeccably clear. I was particularly impressed by his singing of the medieval Sainte Marie, Alonso de Mudarra's Triste estaba, and Oswald v. Wolkenstein's Der May. The last is one of the oldest descriptive pieces, wherein the calls of many birds are imitated at great speed, in the manner of a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song...
Mission to Moscow. Already Sir Anthony had moved briskly. At the first U.S. hint of interest in U.N. intervention, he had rushed to confer with the U.S. and New Zealand. As a temporary member of the Security Council, New Zealand was nominated to take the lead. Among them, they agreed that the cease-fire proposal should be limited to the outlying islands; if Chiang Kai-shek and Chou En-lai got to arguing about Formosa, there would be no hope of agreement on anything...
...then laid off, says Reuther, he should get paid for the whole week. If he is notified in advance of a one-week layoff or more, then he should get enough to "maintain the same living standards as when fully employed." The payments, says U.A.W. with a hint to employers, should be integrated with state unemployment-compensation benefits so that "employers can reduce their liabilities by effectively working toward the improvement of state laws...
float displaying working girls in mink coats, a rather hopeful hint from labor...
...liked to hint to her that he had once committed murder, that his life was already ruined by a secret, mysterious depravity. He said roundly that he had married only to beget an heir to his title. "I mean to live, like a worm of the earth, to propagate my kind, and then I shall put an end to my existence." After one year of this satanic bliss, Lady Byron extricated herself from the monster's clutches. Byron sailed away to Europe; he never saw England again...