Word: tipoffs
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...accomplish it; but then only Nelson and the Mediterranean squadron entered the chase. With the Bismarck gone, the Germans still have her sister, the Tirpitz. If the German Navy, knowing what certain death it would be, nevertheless sent the Tirpitz out on a similar sweep, it might be a tipoff for invasion...
...other launch belonged to the Examiner's, morning rival, the San Francisco Chronicle. There had been a tipoff. The Chronicle's men had their own pictures, and their launch engine was running smoothly. While the Examiner's, men fumbled with their dead engine and crippled diver, the Chronicle launch, unaware of the situation, sped ashore and delivered its plates to waiting messengers. Then it returned to tow in the disabled Examiner launch. It was an hour between the diver's smash and medical attention for him at a hospital. There, for hours, the shocked mother...
...Naval Base raid was the frustration of a jailbreak plot at Sing Sing, in which Pal Ryan was embroiled. Warden Lewis Edward Lawes of Sing Sing keeps the most desperate of his charges in the thick-walled, century-old cellblock (TIME, Nov. 18). From an outside "wire" (tipoff) he learned that Ryan and three others in old Sing Sing were concocting a plot. Slyly he watched them. Suddenly the four were seized, their cells searched. In one were found draftsman's designs of implements to be used in an escape. In another was discovered a wooden key model from which...
...They DO huh? Look. Nathan F. Leopold Senior. Why do they put the Senior in? That's the tipoff. Everybody knows now who he is. Why tell everybody, tease 'em; and supress the dirt...