Word: giveaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Connally was cast in the role of a filibustering Southerner who feared that the Senate might actually invoke cloture† and bring the distasteful Marcantonio bill to a vote. He played it straight, without a single giveaway. In his most sonorous tones he pleaded: "Ah ... do not choke us, do not throw around us the cloak of silence. ... We beg of you not to throttle us, not to throttle the truth, not to throttle the right...
Politicians, executives and other people afflicted with speechmaking have taken to telephoning Can You Top This? for material. The Senator and his colleagues usually oblige, but they seldom give away much. Sample giveaway for corporation lawyers-Professor to student: "Give me a definition of syntax." Student: "My god, have they got a tax on that...
...Carr had faced her accusers calmly, had parried questions in a hurt, gentle voice-until she was told that one victim of her alleged flimflamming had informed on her. Then came the giveaway. From her lips exploded strange, unladylike, un-churchly words of the underworld: "Oh, a canary...
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...TIME did indeed print asterisks in front of the correct answers to those two questions in some copies - a dead giveaway. When the quiz is first made up, asterisks are carried on the correct answers to avoid mistakes in the answer column, but these marks are, of course, supposed to be removed when TIME goes to press. This TIME the printers failed to sweep all the star dust under...