Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before the trial began, there was speculation that Jiang Qmg would defend herself by claiming that Mao had ordered or approved her actions. If she did use that argument last week, it was carefully edited out of the portions of the trial shown daily on television. Indeed, the only hint of Mao's involvement was the charge, made in the official press, that Jiang in her testimony had made denials and tried to shift the responsibility to others both lower and higher than she." Whether or not that was an oblique reference to Mao, every Chinese knows that...
...this continuation, but it now seems that he is as bored with the matter as anyone else. The CRR never meets, he says, but "it was established by Faculty legislation and it has never been abolished, so I don't think we have any choice." Provided with a hint like this, that Dean Epps is just doing his job and might indeed have had it otherwise if the choice were up to him, I believe the time has come to discuss seriously with the Faculty the solution which Dean Epps himself suggests--abolishing the committee. And I believe that some...
...going to happen next. This occupational tic, this desire to sound "knowing" about the not yet knowable, is what makes so much journalism quickly forgettable. The urge is highly visible during the Reagan interregnum, with Washington reporters and columnists desperately inflating every little nod about future policies, or hint about appointments, from the Reagan camp...
Last year at about this time, nnance officials and other administrators began to hint that undergraduate tuition would jump more than 10 per cent for the current academic year--a frightening prospect cushioned only by the hope that the sharp rise was exceptional...
...inertia, inactivity and self-delusion, along with the larger failing of society and its moral codes, that quietly but firmly crushes the spirit of most of the characters. And much of this is revealed through monologues, often masquerading as dialogue, through intimate confessions and tiny confrontations that only hint at the inner explosions. The audience should be close enough to see its reflection in the water of their eyes, or--if that is too sentimental for you--to feel as a hurricane the very gentle breeze of a clenched fist being relaxed...