Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...entertainment not a hint...
...future: "With foreign technical aid, with peace from India, Liaquat can make something of Pakistan. His people have unity of spirit and a fierce national pride. It is a pride which causes them to dream beyond the limitations of reality, and to be abnormally sensitive about any hint that they are not as good or as great as they think they are. A foreigner who has been watching Pakistan since its inception commented: 'They have pride but sometimes a little too much pride. They're forever stubbing their toes. They try their darndest to be humble, but they...
...know what I'd like to do when I retire?" Ted asks, punching a finger at the Journal by way of a hint. "This stuff. I'd like to know enough about stocks to be a regular trader. I've got some blue-chip stocks myself-I don't guess I'll ever be taken in-but I wish I had more education." Ted won't say how much he has to invest ("Naw, that's part of my privacy!"), but he has made around $550,000 from baseball and from such outside...
Nowhere was there any hint of Renoir's own hardships. Although he spent the last 25 years of his life fighting a losing battle with constant illness, no personal gloom ever disfigured or darkened the 4,000 canvases he completed before his death in 1919. When a stuffy teacher, annoyed by his high spirits, once said sardonically, "You seem to take painting as fun," Renoir quickly replied: "If painting were not fun to me, I should certainly...
...Some hint of the darkening skies ahead can be seen in a Ku Klux cross burning, a race riot spilling along a city street, the scarred masonry of the J. P. Morgan & Co. building after the Wall Street explosion of an anarchist bomb. But The Golden Twenties mostly concentrates on the high, wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath...