Word: tip-off
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...commodore's uniform Churchill stopped off at the British-held isle of Cyprus. There he gave what many believed was a tip-off on the Allied invasion plan for Europe. Said he: "I have seen those powerful armies [in North Africa]. . . . They will soon turn north across the Mediterranean...
...Blue horizon in the person of Howie Odell. Operating from a basic single wing-back formation, Odell has combined the features of attacks that he learned while coaching at Pittsburgh (under that canny old fundamentalist Jock Sutherland), Harvard, and Pennsylvania. The secret of his winning system and the tip-off on what to watch for when and if Yale starts to march on Saturday can be gleaned from his own words...
...tip-off that a break was coming occurred in August: the Maharaja announced a new constitution that would abolish the burden of debt on his peasantry. He invited foreign friends to a durbar to celebrate. They found the Maharaja held virtually incommunicado by his ministers. Hundreds of village chieftains waited patiently for him. So did huge ceremonial elephants, with painted toenails and hats like those of Dumbo's mother. When the Maharaja finally showed up, his Magna Charta looked greatly altered. His ministers looked smug...
...tip-off came when the new president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce went to call on the President. Mr. Roosevelt said he would give his visitor five minutes. He liked him so much he kept...
...Vice Premier and Foreign Minister for the first six months after the fall of France. But in December 1940 Pétain found him at once so unpopular and so highhanded in his pro-Naziism that he cast him into outer darkness. His return to power is a tip-off of further collaboration to come, focussing all eyes again on the French fleet (see p. 23) which may hold the balance of sea power today...