Word: hint
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...then banked sharply right, toward the west, as it passed near the small island of Oshima, south of Haneda. At 6:25 p.m., when the aircraft was 20 miles west of the island and approaching the Izu Peninsula, Tokyo-area air-traffic controllers caught the first hint of danger...
...China's communist regime is encouraging go-go people to make loads of money, but continues to repress those same individuals while denying the rest of its citizens basic rights. Without a hint of irony, a few months ago Defence Minister Robert Hill remarked that China is not "a democracy of our type." Quite. The so-called "peaceful rise of China" is a global brand; it has been marketed as such to Western consumers, who don't think long about China's prisons, its taste for capital punishment or its scant regard for workers' rights. Just keep the cheap stuff...
...first hint of trouble would probably be no more than shadows flitting through the darkness outside one of the nation's nuclear power reactors. Beyond the fencing, black-clad snipers would take aim at sentries atop guard towers ringing the site. The guards tend to doubt they would be safe in their bullet-resistant enclosures. They call such perches iron coffins, which is what they could become if the terrorists used deadly but easily obtainable .50-cal. sniper rifles...
...interrogators seem to be trying to find those that work best. They promise better treatment; they show him pictures of 9/11 victims, particularly children and the elderly. They talk about God's will and al-Qahtani's guilt. They tell him that he failed on his mission and hint that other comrades have been captured and are talking about his role in the plot. They play on his emotions, saying he should talk if he ever wants to see his family or friends or homeland again...
Dawson’s performance against Holy Cross on opening day was a pleasant surprise, 17 carries for 76 yards and one touchdown, but did not hint at his promise or his eventual impact on Harvard’s offensive system...