Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couch in his consulting room, stretched his patients upon it, and urged them to sweep their chimneys. Sometimes he hypnotized them, sometimes encouraged them to be frank by asking gentle questions. But one day a patient "reproved him for interrupting her flow of thought," and Freud "took the hint." Another Freudian law, that of "free association" on the patient's part and silence on the doctor's, came into being...
Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's purpose in publishing these disastrous totals was to hint at his desire to settle with the British and restart the oil industry, "the main source of income in the Iranian nation." In explosively chauvinistic Iran, such ideas have to be gingerly phrased: "It is impossible to carry on national reforms without a solution of the oil problem . . . This government hopes to take efficient steps toward exploiting this resource...
...China's Cardinal Tien. Secret police searched his house all night; then the government "deposed" him as primate of Poland. The Cardinal was "allowed to retire to a monastery," said the Warsaw radio. But he went with accusations of "anti-state activities" hanging over his head-a broad hint that the next step might be a propaganda trial...
Dream Time (Martha Lou Harp; Columbia LP). An intriguing vocal that has a hint of Johnnie Ray's edginess and intensity. But the voice is sometimes so concealed in foggy echoes that it might be Garbo singing. With a wispy accompaniment of harp and organ. Songstress Harp runs the gamut from artfully seductive (in Paradise) to reflectively sensuous (in By the Bend of the River...
...cook. They had heard his theories many times before and were bored, but they sat helplessly drowsing into the morning, a captive audience. Only Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, ever did anything about it. She would pointedly ask the Führer the time. Hitler usually took the hint and closed the window on the refuse-laden backyard of his mind...