Word: tip-off
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...Constantine's coup turned out to be little short of a comedy of errors. A few days before his target date, he ordered Olympic Airways to place two planes at his disposal-a tip-off to the junta's ubiquitous secret police that the King had some travel in mind. His method of heralding the coup was even less auspicious: he simply sat down at his palace desk in the Athens suburb of Tatoi and wrote a letter to Lieut. General Odysseus Anghelis, the army chief of staff and a junta supporter. In it, the King told...
...seasoned searchers, the antagonism of a landowner is almost as sure a tip-off as a sudden hum from his detector. "When I ask a farmer if we can dig on his land and he says yes, I don't even take the detector out of the car," says Dickey. "But if he says, 'Hell, no,' then I know the place is loaded...
After a shoddy start, Harvard jumped back into the game virtually with the second half tip-off. Bob Johnson grabbed the ball and streaked in unmolested for a quick bucket to make it 37-32, Yale...
...FINE ART OF FOOTBALL WATCHING (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Michigan State's Coach Duffy Daugherty explains his idea of how to watch football by concentrating on the two "deep backs" in an offensive backfield, on the theory that they are the tip-off to 90% of the action...
...surface, at least, this leaves 40 or so local issues to be negotiated. One tip-off to the importance of these local disputes--concerning working conditions at specific airports, for example--is that when top union officials met with federal mediators the day after the strike began, five local chairmen were with them. But many observers agreed with Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Kennedy Library and a member of the President's board which tried to avert the strike, when he said the local issues could be settled "if there were a will to settle...