Word: tip-off
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...Radicals indulged in no idle bragging about an election victory. They were fully aware that the entire resources of the government were stacked against them. But they were encouraged that the Peron regime was showing signs of internal strain. The tip-off had been Evita's sudden withdrawal from the vice-presidential race after the disclosure that the army disapproved of her candidacy. Certainly part of the Radicals' new defiance rose from the belief that the army no longer fully backed Perón. But they were not pinning their hopes on a barrackroom revolt. Another Radical orator...
...most sinister figure around Helsinki is that of Lieut. General Grigory Savonenkov, the Soviet minister, a bullyragging, bellowing, table-pounding type. Savonenkov's arrival in Helsinki in mid-January was the first tip-off to the Finns that trouble was brewing. At that time I filed you a brief piece about his arrival, and the Moscow censor deleted his military title and all reference to his general's uniform. This time I inquired whether he was still wearing the uniform. The reply from a competent Finnish observer: "I think he sleeps...
...McCormick, 6 ft., 5 in., will be pivot man. McCormick, from Cleveland, was a hurler on the track team last spring and makes good use of his height and jump on the tip-off and under the basket. Cruising at the same altitude is forward Ed Smith, 6 ft., 5 in., who will be firing with either hand from the left. Smith's home field is in Columbus, Ohio...
...tip-off to "Mother Wore Tights"--at least to its non-musical moments--comes in its first thirty seconds. Seated in a rocking chair, as the picture opens, and rocking gently to the accompaniment of some Twentieth Century Fox violinists who play that as yet unforgotten song beginning "M is for the many times I've missed you," an old and gray Betty Grable knits while a nostalgic female voice reveals over the sound-track that "there sits Mother." Fortunately, the picture rapidly retreats into the past, showing Mother when, as the title does not quite suggest...
Along with most other Brazilians, the Brazilian General Staff had long suspected that Vargas was up to some trickery that would postpone the Dec. 2 presidential elections and justify his staying in power. The tip-off came when Getulio made his notorious brother Benjamin ("Beijo"-the kiss) chief of the powerful Rio police. That meant violence. For natty little Beijo was even more famous for flourishing his gun in nightclubs than for kissing chorus girls...