Word: hint
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...took me into the kitchen to scold me about something and I politely excused myself in German to buzz in a friend who had come to recover the cell phone he had lent me. She turned her cold stare upon me and declared, in halting English without a hint of questioning, “Oh, you have guests...
...struggling I’m doing something right” and recognized a tone totally contrary to everything I thought I was. To the extent that I had inherited a culture, nowhere in my very hybrid Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern European parentage was there even a hint of the kind of Puritanism that values “sticking it out” above all else. More importantly, the sentiment had never guided my decisions in high school, where I wasn’t ashamed to take steps to make life easier for myself...
...supporters not to protest the meeting "for the sake of party unity," Plouffe said. Then again, this may have less to do with principle than cold, hard political math: after all, one generally doesn't protest something that one expects to win. And that should give a pretty good hint of the likely outcome on Saturday...
...entirely true: I was starting a new adventure.In the picture, I’m standing in front of a “Welcome to Massachusetts” sign at the Connecticut border. My hands are stuffed in my pockets. If you look closely enough, you can see a hint of fear-tinged-excitement in my eyes as I prepared to arrive on the campus that would forever change my life.I knew it was going to be a long drive, but I also knew that the clothes I wore sitting driver’s side would be the first impression...
...industry over the last few bites of the best ham and cheese sandwich I had ever tasted. It was actually more like a roll-up. Or a wrap, perhaps, if you imagine the familiar thin tortilla-like casing replaced with extra fluffy crust-free white bread devoid of any hint of soggyness despite its precarious position spiraled perfectly around melted cheese and thin, warm ham. It was cut in half, placed on a platter of crispy, hand-cut, lightly salted potato chips and set in front of me in the bar room of the Hotel Majestic in Barcelona...