Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taking a Hint. Most of the 62 Christian Democrats who went to Bonn's Palais Schaumburg that cold and rainy morning expected a routine session with the Chancellor. Clutching a copy of the federal republic's Basic Law, Adenauer lectured, instead, for 45 minutes on the legal and moral position of the presidential office. Some of the politicians got Adenauer's hint and asked the Chancellor directly...
...serpentine twists and turns of logic in his novel would tax Laocoön on a good wrestling day. There is a baffling subplot about a priggish schoolteacher and his nymphomaniac wife, who farms out her favors on a faded billiard table. Though the teacher is unnerved by a hint of scandal, he spends most of his time goading his wife into the arms of her lovers. One is Ol' Gene, and by the time the billiard-table girl finishes with him, Massie's in the cold, cold ground...
...Lady's Not for Burning has a certain grandeur of language and sentiment, of metaphor and tone. The Harvard Dramatic Club has added a grandeur of production. The first hint of a truly fine performance comes even as the curtain rises on a massive, more or less gothic set admirably suited to Fry's time direction: "1400 more or less exactly...
...Georgia, a hint from Herman is heard like a voice out of a burning bush...
...Daily. "To guarantee construction of important projects, we must learn how to give up favorite local projects." The theoretical journal Red Flag demanded fewer shock programs, insisted that even during such programs, "sufficient labor should be reserved for normal production." In Manchuria, local planners, quick to take a hint, announced that railway laborers "drawn from the water conservancy and iron and steel battlefronts . . . will be asked to handle food shipments in the way they handled iron and steel...