Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailed for Punta Arenas, 1,400 miles south of Santiago. Once at sea, the reporters were permitted to radio that "the President was steaming south to take personal possession of the Chilean antarctic." González sailed right past Punta Arenas. At Fortescue, near Chile's southern tip, his party boarded the Chilean navy transport President Pinto...
...Little Push. But last week Joe was suddenly back in the news. Sun & Times Reporter James McGuire (who had helped clear Joe back in 1945) had got a hot tip. The tip: Joe had turned over $5,000 of the $24,000 to Rags Nelson...
...sensitive eyes, but she uses them with as little restraint as a ham singer's tremolo; her considerable charm needs good direction. All Dan Dailey needs is a good picture. Oscar Levant gets along all right, good show or bad, with his peculiar brand of vinegar. One obvious tip for those who make would-be "nostalgic" musical movies: the old arrangements for the old songs are fully as nostalgic as the melodies. Frequently the fancy new arrangements are terrible; always, they sabotage the nostalgia...
Detectives had been checking on the man for several weeks before a tip came in that he had returned from a hurried out-of-town trip, thus setting the stage for the combined police action. The suspect surrendered in his room without a struggle...
Restless Artist Giacometti was troubled by the fact that he couldn't do all his job at once. If he started on the tip of the nose, the rest of the face would lose shape and perspective. "The distance between one side of the nose and the other," he wrote, "is like the Sahara." Later, in an effort to grasp the whole, his sculptures began to shrink until they became so small that they would fall apart at the touch of his knife. Finally, his figures began to seem real to him only when they were long and slender...