Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...observers have tended to see, in these cycles of near accords and last-minute stipulations, parallels to almost any global situation they choose. South African strikes into Angola to forestall SWAPO have been likened to Israeli incursions into Beirut. Some see South Africa's approach in Namibia as a hint of future internal strategy...
Lynah appeared perfectly ordinary 90 minutes before game time; a bit bigger and less modern than Bright Center. The first hint of what lay ahead came on learning that what seemed to be 25 fans milling about in the stands was actually the crowd control crew. Its task: to spend the whole game in the bottom rows, backs to the action, watching for students ready to trash...
...anyone you hear practicing scales can probably help you out) Along with pieces by Bach and Mendelssohn, the Spectrum will also throw in a beautiful and often-performed Randall Thompson work called "Alleluia" (No translation problems here: The lyrics consist of one repeated word, and here's a hint--it's somewhere in the title...
...luxurious summer home in Yalta, where the Olympic-size swimming pool was shielded from the wind by thick glass walls that glided back and forth at the press of a button. Early on, he spoke to state visitors of his interest in splashy automobiles. Taking the hint, they plied him with examples of the motorized best that Western technology could offer. Brezhnev was a notoriously bad driver; yet at one time his stable included a Rolls-Royce, a Citroën-Maserati and a Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC. And Nixon remembers giving a Lincoln Continental to Brezhnev at Camp David...
...first hint came at 7:15 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday. Nikolai Shchelokov, the Minister for Public Order, had just delivered a brief television address to celebrate Militia Day, and millions of Soviet viewers were awaiting the live pop concert that was supposed to follow. Instead, without explanation, a film about Lenin was broadcast. Then, at 9, came Vremya (Time), the nightly news. The announcers, who usually dress informally, wore dark jackets or dresses. "I ran to my neighbors to find out if they knew what was going on," a Moscow secretary said. "Everyone was excited. We all thought somebody...