Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liftoff, the orbiting spacecraft soon fell prey to more of the technical afflictions that have plagued the $10 billion shuttle program from its very beginning. Two hours after the shuttle rode its pillar of fire into the Florida skies, alarm lights flashed in the cockpit. It was the first hint of trouble in Columbia's electrical system, and soon fears arose that the spacecraft itself might be rocked by the same kind of explosion that nearly turned the Apollo 13 moon flight into a disaster. Mission controllers in Houston, who took technical command of Columbia...
...first hint of trouble came when the Ex show finished preliminary auditions and posted a callback list--and the callbacks began showing up at mainstage auditions, which were still in the first round. "Nobody knew where to go when. It was chaotic," recalls a mainstage production person...
...locale is Hazelhurst, Miss., and the time is "five years after Hurricane Camille," Playwright Henley's little hint that this clan is disaster-prone. Lenny MaGrath (Lizbeth Mackay), the eldest sister, is facing her 30th birthday with "a shrunken ovary" and no gentlemen callers in sight. She is plain of face, finicky in manner and gnawed by self-doubt. She had a heartfelt romance once but skittered away from it in fear and put her emotions in a deep freeze. The kind of event that nails her hysterically to her sun-drenched kitchen wall and illustrates Henley...
...being converted into an instrument for countering civil disobedience and maintaining law and order." Noting Jaruzelski's past refusals to turn the military against the Polish people, other analysts doubted that he would do so now. Observed a U.S. State Department official: "Jaruzelski wanted to give a hint to the people-and the party-that he is in command, but it's no more than that." Jaruzelski is also thought to have another motive for using the army: the hope that some of the good will the Polish people feel toward their military (see box) will...
...book still maintains a hint of the political leanings that inspired its creation. The tone falls somewhere between wry-liberal and responsible-moderate, amiably contemptuous of extremists of the Right or Left. Barone himself says he has turned more conservative since the days of the Vietnam protests, but he still proudly describes himself as a Democrat. His concern for the future of his party has led him to several of the recent soul-searching seminar Democrats have held since their 1980 debacle...