Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worn down by the friction and was fully pre pared to let Haig go. Yet, until the very moment that an obviously strained and tense Reagan stepped before the TV cameras to make his terse (1 min. 11 sec.) announcement of Haig's resignation, there had been no hint that the President had not only agreed to his departure but had already chosen a successor. The nation, the world and even members of the National Security Council who had attended a luncheon meeting with Reagan and Haig that broke up only 1 hr. 45 min. before the President...
...former Presidents. Reagan managed to call Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, but Gerald Ford was aboard an airplane and could not be reached. When Reagan strode into the White House press room, newsmen had been told only that he would make "an important statement" and had been given no hint of what it would be about...
...billion in "savings" to be taken out of the $568 billion in Social Security expenditures now expected over the next three fiscal years. The $40 billion represents about the amount by which Social Security benefit payments are expected to exceed tax collections, but the resolution designedly gave no hint as to whether the savings would be accomplished by reducing future benefits, raising taxes, or whatever. Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico got the Budget Committee in the Republican-controlled Senate to approve the plan on a partisan 11-to-9 vote...
...first anvil hint is dropped in the opening scene: in a dormitory of Miss Hannigan's Dickensian orphanage, the eldest of six orphans jumps from bed to bed-and one galumphing foot lands splat! on the forehead of a younger girl. It's no wonder that when Annie (Aileen Quinn) gets the chance to live with Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney), she promptly forgets her orphan camaraderie. But then the entire movie is a series of plot strands twisted, then discarded...
...home: an Argentine submarine waiting for the assault like a turtle on its back; a farce-until the Belgrano. The lesson of the loss of life on that cruiser was not merely revulsion, but a recognition of the essential nature of the whole transaction. And was there not some hint of malicious fascination in all this too? In its darkest heart, had not much of the world been goading these lines toward each other from the start; praising peace and negotiations, to be sure, but secretly eager to see what happens-even in a comedy-when a shot is fired...