Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...textbook piece on the ancient art of recruiting. In the modest Dunn home, the phone jangled steadily with long-distance calls placed by nearly every major-college coach in the South, from Alabama's Paul Bryant to Arkansas' Frank Broyles. From Dartmouth came a circumspect and indirect inquiry. Notre Dame forwarded plane tickets to the Southern California game (Perry Lee mailed them right back: "I don't much like cold weather"), and victory-starved Mississippi State sent a plaintive note ("We all hope and pray that you will come with...
...this three per cent levy would be redistributed to the cities and towns of the commonwealth. In an effort to win Boston support for his proposal, Furcolo developed his program of redistribution so that the city would receive more than a generous share. It was said that such an indirect subsidy to Boston could cut the real estate levy--now $101.20--by as much as $20, a considerable improvement if possible...
...their four weeks in Laos, the U.N. fact finders had been exposed to ample but always indirect evidence that Communist North Viet Nam was behind the attempts to overthrow the pro-Western Laotian government of Premier Phoui Sananikone. The fact finders had traveled to jungle outposts that still bore the marks of Communist mortar fragments and had interviewed hundreds of refugees who had fled the Communists; most convincing of all, they had examined captured weapons and uniforms that clearly originated across the border in North Viet Nam. But at the last minute, the Laotians had decided against presenting...
...open-air movie was filled to capacity with a bronzed, relaxed audience. In the swimming pool near by, energetic types were splashing away at water polo. From the "Bikini" bar came the clink of glasses and the hum of bar babble, and in the soft glow cast by indirect neon lighting, palm leaves fluttered...
...backed civilian militia that helped the army and police quell the March revolt, then stayed on as "bridge guards" and "night security patrols" long after they were needed. The nation is now secure, said Kassem, and no longer needs such special forces. Kassem did all this in his usual indirect fashion, without specifically denouncing the Communists. He obviously wanted no unscheduled fireworks to go off with a bang before his own July 14 festivities...