Word: tip-off
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...feared that a tour this week of poverty areas in the U.S. would get similar treatment. For most people, Kennedy suggested with a smile, "the more important issue seems to be whether my weight is going up or down." (It has been going down, previously a surefire tip-off to political observers that he was preparing to run.) "I wanted to be President, and I still do," he conceded. "I would have been a strong contender. I had put together a good political organization...
...Democrats' chances of turning Ronald Reagan out of the White House never looked particularly promising, even when the party seemed unified and Mondale's nomination appeared inevitable. The fact that seven other candidates showed up at the starting gate should have been a tip-off that this would be no live furlong romp. Now that the shine of the Mondale machine has been dulled by Florida sun and New England must and snow, new possibilities seem to be popping up every day. In the most interesting scenario, neither Hart not Mondale is able to nail down enough delegates...
...Crimson didn't start off the weekend so auspiciously, falling in a rout on Saturday to Providence, 112-48. Providence, which went on to trounce nationally-ranked Holy Cross and win the tournament, came on strong with a full court press from the opening tip-off. Revealing no weakness and capitalizing on a height and quickness advantage, the Friars proved too tough for the inexperienced Harvard women...
...with Castro's report that he sent warning to "Cuban representatives in Grenada" on the Saturday before the Tuesday strike. Even the U.S. State Department told Havana just hours before the invasion that the strike was imminent, assuring Castro that it was not aimed at his workers. This tip-off angered the Pentagon...
...tip-off was the setting. Unlike the grand and spacious Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, where John and Robert Kennedy had launched their bids for the White House, Room 4232 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building is small and comparatively humble. Packed inside with a slew of Kennedy family members were the usual political retainers and loyal supporters, gathered together for the occasion: not the launching but the scuttling of a presidential bid. Announced Edward Kennedy last week: "I will not be a candidate for President of the United States...