Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whispers passed between Molotov and his advisers. Had there been just a hint of a Western walkout? Into that moment of uncertainty darted Bidault with a carefully drafted French proposal for keeping disarmament talks within the U.N., and a further suggestion that both his own and Molotov's arms proposals be put off for private discussion later. This time Molotov surprised the others. "I do not consider it advantageous to draw out discussions," said one of diplomacy's mas ter procrastinators...
...costly concept of balanced forces, which has hashed up every defense budget since World War II. In its place, Eisenhower emphasized the buildup of air-atomic power. This, as far as Secretary Dulles was concerned, spelled a sustained capability for massive, effective retaliation-without the'slightest hint of aggressive intent...
...Living Symbols." The U.N. liberation schedule ran smoothly, with no hint of interference from the Communists. But on the second morning, a small boat laden with 50 U.S. marines slammed into an LST and sank. Twenty-eight marines were drowned, or died from exposure...
...first is disgusted to see American boys taking an interest in and even marrying Japanese girls with butterball shapes, burlap dresses and gold teeth. But he soon serves as best man at a Japanese-American wedding, and the groom, an airman from Gruver's outfit, drops a tantalizing hint: "G.I.s married to Jap girls always look as if they knew a big, important secret." Through the newlyweds, Lloyd meets willowy, honey-skinned Hana-ogi, who teaches him the Japanese women's big secret ("They make their men feel important...
Sylvia Russell's complexion was pale olive and her eyes were limpid hazelgreen, but her hair was her crowning glory. It was what British Guiana called "Good Hair": it came flaxen straight from her immigrant cockney father and gave no hint, by frizz or kink, that Sylvia's mother was "a low-class girl" of "Buck" (Guiana Indian) and Negro parentage. Sylvia could not claim to belong to "the respectable middle class" of old and established colored families, but she was tony enough to attend the Georgetown academy of Miss Jenkins (a colored lady who passed for white...