Word: hint
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Every few decades there is realignment in American politics. Parties’ platforms undergo significant changes, as do the self-impressions of their members. With the presidential election near, the positions and themes adopted by the Democrats and Republicans hint that such a shift is beginning to take place...
...French do. To wiggle out of a house purchase, ask your bank to deny you a mortgage. At dinner, don't commit the cheese-course gaffe of cutting the tips off Brie and Camembert wedges; instead try the fragrant Cantal, "like soft Cheddar, with a hint of athlete's foot." As a prose stylist, Clarke can't hold a cheese knife to legions of past Anglo-Saxon observers like Mark Twain and Janet Flanner (or even to Mayle). But Merde has a lively plot - West's French boss is up to no good - plus an element missing in many such...
...seen no second thoughts by him at all," Democratic Senator John Breaux says of Bush. Even though many congressional Republicans believe privately that the chances are no better than fifty-fifty that the U.S. will be successful in Iraq, Bush's friends say the President gives no hint in private conversations that he is discouraged. If he did waver, there would be political hell to pay. "We're getting close to having a thousand soldiers dead in Iraq," says a Republican Senator. "A lot of people are upset, and the polls have changed. So if the President...
...meantime, the U.S. squad is getting jeered not only by its coaches and fans but also by a global audience formerly in thrall to its every NBA-marketed leap. The team is booed lustfully whenever it takes the floor or shows the faintest hint of exuberance--Greek fans chanted "Puer-to Ri-co"--and, yes, politics has a lot to do with it. The rest of the world understands metaphor...
...heart was in a constant, turbulent riot ... Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For a while these reveries provided an outlet ... They were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing...