Word: hints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army took on the immense job of immunizing all 900,000 civilians in its zone against typhoid and paratyphoid (similar to typhoid, but milder). In doing so, the U.S. hoped that the British, French and Russians, who have charge of the 2,100,000 other Berliners, would take the hint and do likewise...
...what products Jahco might eventually make, Bill Jack gave no hint. Associates gossiped about electric motors and ball bearings, which Jahco made during the war, or an engine for light cars, like the one it had been developing for the Army...
Married. Captain Mildred Helen McAfee, 45, director of the WAVES, pres- ident of Wellesley College; and Congregationalist Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54; she for the first time, he for the second; in Jaffrey, N.H. The bridal gown had a hint of Navy rank: tailored white crepe with gold buttons and gold belt...
...best they could, hacked cautiously at targets of opportunity. When Thai puppets suddenly deserted the Japanese, the Chinese seized the opportunity and dashed across the Indo-China frontier to take the minor port of Moncay on the Gulf of Tonkin. The capture of this position gave Chungking the hint of a corridor...
Four days later, the British freighter S.S. Balfe came upon six of the Baía's life rafts, pulled aboard the 22 miserable survivors who gave the world its first hint of the disaster. Later, other rescue vessels picked up a few more of the Baía's 400-odd crew members, landed them at the port of Recife before a crowd of solemn men and weeping women. Only a handful were saved. The survivors believed that the Baía had struck a floating mine, exploded the magazine...