Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than Expected. With his left flank so neatly reinforced, Mendes turned next to the right. A hint, a subtle suggestion, and General Charles de Gaulle, who once described the Mendes regime as a "mudhole." asked for an appointment with the Premier. Mendes was delighted, and after busily dodging newsmen, the two who have made the most impact on France since World War II met at the Hotel La Perouse, an old-fashioned hostelry on the right bank of the Seine...
...country's enemies, from Hiss to Ho Chi Minh, could be lumped under the heading of dogs in the manager. Although the Administration's critics usually bay at the moon, for those recurring embarrassments, like Senator McCarthy, there's the old wheeze about letting sleeping dogs lie. Any hint of co-existing with Russia could be neatly scotched by saying that such a move would be lying down together like dogs. Or, in reflecting on the thankless job of those who are trying to rid the government of 20 years of treason, he could say that...
...Blunt Hint. Before a military court of inquiry, Dides at first stuck to his refusal to reveal his source. But after a second grilling, he revealed that he got the papers from a shady little Tunisian named André Baranès, a fellow-traveling journalist. As Dides described him, Baranes played the doubly devious game of passing government secrets to the Reds and Red secrets to Dides. Where did Baranes get the documents , he handed over to Dides? "A policeman." said Dides "doesn't ask his agents where they get things." Baranes,however, could not be found...
...Fine Arts Center had on view its fifth biennial show of new acquisitions by U.S. museums. Among the 59 pictures by contemporary U.S. painters, 14 works were realistic. Thirteen were completely nonobjective. Of the rest, a majority could be described as semi-decipherable, mainly because the artists gave a hint of their meanings by the titles. Said Director James Byrnes of the Fine Arts Center: "Nonobjective painting is not confined to any one place. It has permeated to the grass roots. Regionalism is essentially dead, and representational painting has almost been submerged. U.S. nonobjective artists are in the forefront...
...expected to 1) take the nomination himself, or 2) give it to U.S. Senator Irving Ives, who doesn't want it. Last week, when the governor stepped before 5,000 Republicans at an anniversary dinner in Long Point, N.Y., everyone listened carefully for an announcement or a hint...