Word: hint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Illinois' aged (85) Congressman Adolph Sabath emerged from the President's office and gave waiting correspondents the latest teasing hint from Harry Truman. According to the Congressman, the President said: "I have had seven years of it, and it's been a trying job ... I would prefer to lay aside the burdens and responsibilities . . . The only thing that can make me run is if I feel it is in the interest of my country and the peace of the world...
...points that in one case, when the defense called in eight doctors to refute Spilsbury, the jury refused to be swayed by them. At last people began to protest. Spilsbury's pronouncements, a lawyer complained, were becoming "invested with the force of dogma, and it was blasphemy to hint that he might conceivably be wrong...
...Nautilus' new atomic sister is being built behind a tight security curtain, but by announcing her famous name, the Navy also gave a hint of how fast the work is progressing. The keel will probably be laid soon after the first of the year, and her prefabricated sections will be welded together soon after. From all indications, the new Nautilus will be ready for her shakedown cruise before...
Gentleman Amateur. Taft supporters were exultant at Krock's hint that Ike might back their man, declared that Taft and Eisenhower were actually close on foreign policy and Ike would wind up "in Taft's corner." On the Democratic side, word got around Washington that Harry Truman was saying privately that Ike was a real gentleman and a great man-but the President hoped Ike wouldn't run because he is an amateur politician and look what happened to Amateurs Herbert Hoover and Henry Wallace...
After the ceremony, the President was asked if he really felt fine in spite of all his troubles. Said Harry Truman: "Well, I'll let somebody else shoulder the troubles." Some political soothsayers took this sibylline pronouncement as a hint that Truman did not intend to run again...