Word: tip-off
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...book begins safely enough. The narrator, who can be described redundantly as a discontented newspaperman, hates his job. In the process the author (movie critic for London's Sunday Express) pokes some sharp fun at British journalism. But the tip-off that Novelist Monsey finds the world more sickening than funny comes soon: the narrator mentions that his cast-off wife, a stripteaser whose breasts point nor'-nor'east and nor'-nor'west, respectively, achieved her directional distinction through cosmetic surgery. What follows is no more pleasant than a surgeon's knife...
...Tip-Off; Take-Off. At the bell in Yankee Stadium last week, the jug-eared, roundheaded Johansson pawed tentatively with a left jab, kept his right cocked to launch the big punch. He did not seem too heavily muscled, but the tip-off of his power came late in the first round when he threw his very first right hand. Though it was a glancing blow, the 182-lb. Patterson blinked...
...tip-off that Reuther would give in came when Ford proposed a three-year agreement. Reuther raised no real objection, even though this key Ford demand had been flatly turned down for months. From then on, differences were quickly settled. The problem was to find enough high-sounding but low-cost fringe benefits so that Reuther, who had long ago scrapped his grandiloquent profit-sharing schemes, could save face. Fordman Bugas hurried to a special evening meeting of Ford's board in Dearborn. He returned with a few penny-ante sweeteners. Reuther stepped back into the conference room...
Weight Lifters. In Georgetown, Ky., P.S. Hickey, hauling watermelons, pulled his truck into a state weighing station, returned later on the tip-off of another driver and found six slobbering state employees stowing away part of his load...
...cutting and shaping tools briefly hit $29.8 million in March (caused by bunching up three large orders that normally would have been spread over a quarter), dropped to $20.8 million again in April, in May jumped to $23.7 million. To economists, who scan toolmakers' order books for a tip-off to future spending plans of a wide range of manufacturers, even such slight changes are encouraging...