Word: tip-off
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...Japanese were here from 1910 on, and the Russians are here now. Eventually the Koreans must solve the problem of transforming their schizoid country into a nation. Meanwhile it is our problem too, and what the U.S. does here in the next year or so will be the tip-off to our future role in the Orient...
...abortive coup instigated in CÓrdoba by brave but bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...
Fierce-browed Admiral William Frederick Halsey, one of the U.S. Navy's fightingest admirals was just about out of a job. At his advance headquarters in a Solomons jungle last week, correspondents were called in, given the tip-off that his work in the South Pacific was about over. When "Bull" Halsey, once famed Annapolis fullback (1902-3), took over the South Pacific command in October 1942, the Marines on Guadalcanal were in trouble. Halsey waded right...
...Weapon. Grand Admiral Doenitz had not been CINC for long. Only three months ago he replaced Erich Raeder as the head of Hitler's Navy, and the shift in command was a tip-off on the Nazis' future strategy. For Karl Doenitz was a submariner from away back. A submariner he remained, in personal command of the U-boat fleet...
Answer to Frankness. The Russian reaction was prompt and compliant. Izvestia printed recapitulations of U.S. aid to Russia recently made by Lend-Lease Administrator Edward Stettinius Jr. A Moscow radio announcer broadcast similar material at a convenient speed for stenographers to take it down-a tip-off that provincial papers were expected to print it. Ambassador Litvinoff in Washington said: "Supplies received through Lend-Lease have been an enormous help and as such deeply appreciated by the people of the Soviet Union, who are fully aware of its extent...