Word: tipoffs
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Even the Nicaraguan peons knew that something was stirring. The tipoff: a drastic drop in planting during the current rainy season. Small farmers, sure that in the event of war troops would burn their fields, had planted just enough for their...
...tipoff on the team's post-exam power may well come tonight, when a reputedly strong Navy outfit should tax the local strength to its fullest extent. Such first-line performers as Ted Norris in the quarter-mile, Jerry Gorman in the 220, Captain Chuck Hoelzer in the breaststroke, and Tom Drohan in the dive should win; but whether the depth necessary to win the vital relays is forthcoming remains to be seen...
Robin J. Cruikshank, a sharp-eyed British journalist, told Americans this winter (TIME, Jan. 20) how Europe's ears would be cocked. He asked: "Will Uncle Sam decide to take the expansionist way in the world?" What the U.S. offered at Geneva would be the tipoff: "The first speech of the American spokesman . . . will have all the force of an act, a decisive...
...Tipoff. Moreover, continues Zacharias, he for one knew what the Japs were likely to do, and warned Washington well in advance. As early as October 1940, Zacharias learned of an impending raid by Jap suicide planes on U.S. capital ships. The raid, of course, never came off, but "from then on, I expected a Japanese attack . . . momentarily." Navy brass, he says, shared this apprehension "only in the most perfunctory manner...
Hondurans got the tipoff last month when Oppositionist Edmundo Pinto Mejia was arrested, then savagely beaten with the classic verga de toro (bull's pizzle). Newsmen hustling into Guatemala for safety last week reported a new "wave of terror"; Dictator Carías' jails were filling fast...