Word: hint
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...compelling to some. A huge publicity push that coincides with all the other would-be candidates' off-year limbering up? Surely he can't JUST want to save the world. Then there's how the movie, when not scaring the audience with the threat of the disappearance of Greenland (hint: not the continental equivalent of the appendix), casts Gore's life into the soft-focus glow most often associated with The Man From a Place Called Hope. His young days on the farm. Triumph over family tragedy. Determination and grace after humiliating defeat. And just as in a campaign...
...hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies...
...comments brought to light what many Democrats contend is really beneath the fight over immigration - a hint of racism or nativism. "I have no doubt that some of those involved in the debate have their position based on fear and perhaps racism because of what's happening demographically in the country," says Ken Salazar, Democratic Senator from Colorado. A Senate Democratic leadership aide is more blunt: "A lot of the anti-immigration movement is jingoistic at best and racist at worst. There is a fear of white people being over run by darker-skinned people...
...Amid hectic diplomatic efforts, U.S. officials hint more and more at possible strikes against Iran's nuclear assets. We are heading toward another unjustified war, but this one could be much more dangerous than the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. It is time for American citizens to decide whether they like to be viewed as a warring nation. Zeeshan Ahmad Lahore...
...insisted. "Our efforts are focused on links to al-Qaeda terrorists and its affiliates." But no one in his Administration was willing to shed any light on how it is using the information it is getting or what the value of the whole exercise has been. White House officials hint that only long-distance calls, not local ones, are in the database, but they won't go much further. Even some of the President's friends say they need more answers. Asks Grover Norquist, a G.O.P. activist and an important White House ally: "The question for the government is, What...