Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something up his sleeve. "You don't negotiate until you have to," says a G.O.P. leader. "There is no alternative from Congress yet." Reagan has been uncharacteristically careful with words. When Senator Pete Domenici made his budget proposals at the White House, Reagan gave no hint of his feelings. "Thank you very much," he said, and moved on to other business...
...Ronald Reagan at his press conference last week, in what seemed a conciliatory, almost inviting gesture. For members of Congress traumatized by the prospect of enacting the President's fiscal 1983 budget, which projects a $91.5 billion deficit despite more politically painful spending cuts, Reagan's coy hint of compromise was in welcome contrast to his previous "put up or shut up" attitude toward critics. Nonetheless, the President insisted, there should be no tampering with his plan to add $34 billion to defense spending and to cut $91.6 billion in taxes next year...
...similarities to earlier triumphant trips to Mexico and Poland, there were inescapable differences. The Pontiff looked older and drawn, with an occasional hint of feebleness. And as the cordons of security police mingling with crowds made all too plain, it was impossible to forget the gunfire in St. Peter's Square. Indeed, soon after the trip started, West German police picked up Turkish Terrorist Omer Ay, who is suspected of having been an accomplice in the assassination attempt. There was reason for concern near at hand. Nigeria's official news agency reported the arrest of four people...
...other works, a spontaneous riff on some people, places and things that have appeared elsewhere in Cheever's fiction. The hero could be (but is not) one of those stubborn old Yankee Wapshots. The settings range from New York City to a declining country village, with the hint of suburban Bullet Parks and Shady Hills sprawling in between. And the plot is a Cheeverian amalgam of unexpected violence and grace...
...opportunity to hint at my recurrent nightmare: "One cannot have a crisis of authority in a society for a period of months without paying a price somewhere along the line...