Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...40th anniversary greeting, President John Kennedy thought he detected in a maturing TIME "an occasional hint of fallibility." Well, yes. But TIME still knows what it knows. We are still in the business of making judgments and we still do not claim objectivity, which from the start we considered impossible and undesirable. Instead we aim for fairness and balance. Since the introduction of bylines in 1970 (writers had labored anonymously before), many individual voices have been heard in TIME. Even so, we maintain a broad consistency of policy and beliefs. But we assert these beliefs with less evangelical fervor than...
...stars. In medicine, the first sulfa drugs were unheard of. Physicists, having recently discovered that gravity could warp space and time, were now catching glimpses of an even wilder idea: that at its fundamental level, of atomic particles, the universe was governed entirely by chance. There was not a hint of the powerful forces these ideas would eventually unleash...
...poked fun at Glenn the boy policing the language of his school chums, the film focuses only on Glenn the adult. Other digs are neatly skipped over. Wolfe, for example, implies that Glenn sought out NASA officials to discuss replacing Alan Shephard on the first flight, but not a hint of that appears on the screen...
Will The Right Stuff help Glenn the candidate? Jim Johnson, acting campaign manager for Walter Mondale, Glenn's chief rival, is uncharacteristically catty: "The movie is going to make Glenn look old." That sort of belittling comment is a hint that Mondale aides are at least a little worried about the film's influence. Glenn staffers either dismiss the movie as a factor or play it up gingerly. "It plays no part in our strategy," says Bill White, head of Glenn's campaign. "On balance, though, it's more of a plus." One Democratic Party strategist...
...Australians came from behind Monday, frustrating all of Liberty's final attempts to keep the Cup bolted to a table in New York for another three years. So the Americans should accept the defeat and get ready for a visit to the Southern Hemisphere. But there is still a hint of lingering doubt, and national security could hang in the balance...