Word: hints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaviest blow struck in the area delegated to Chiang Kai-shek by the Allied Supreme Command (Thailand and Indo-China). The raiders reported they smashed up 21 aircraft on the ground, fired gasoline stores, burned down hangars. This successful attack from the air may have been a hint of the shape of things to come for the Jap. But the things would have to come fast...
...away, somewhere in the fog of the North Atlantic, and the eight-point Atlantic Charter it produced (TIME, Aug. 25) seemed as blurred and fuzzy as the inexpert newsreels which gave the U.S. public its only presence at that meeting. This meeting might possibly be the first broad hint that some day the two nations might draw together-perhaps in some sort of federation like Clarence Streit's Union Now, perhaps in some other form, perhaps in a friendship which would require no blueprint at all. But right now their meeting chiefly concerned the concrete present...
Spain. One hint that Adolf Hitler might not demand that Spain pave a new road for his conquest lay in the fact that Spain had taken over Germany's interests in the U.S. and was reported preparing to send 200 consular officers across the Atlantic...
...leaping tuna and the frolicking dolphins were beautiful, but to Steinbeck all the animals, even the repulsive ones, were beautiful with life. As he traces the interaction of men and animals there is never the slightest hint that men might be "superior...
...Roger said he had been notified that the heretofore independent Commandos would be turned over to the Army. The War Office remained mum, gave no hint that he was correct or who his successor would be. War-wise Londoners chalked up the gaunt, garrulous Sir Roger as another victim of politics-in-the-military, were convinced that Winston Churchill himself had engineered the pigeonholing...