Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the U.S. had purposely left open in previous statements, which maintained that the North Vietnamese "wouldn't have to state" their moves toward deescalation. Johnson, moreover, spoke of "the chance that we will have to act promptly on additional military measures" in Viet Nam - a hint to some that the President was preparing for an increase in the fighting or bombing, perhaps even a final push to prove that the war can be won militarily. Johnson, however, was careful to preface his warning with the announcement that the U.S. has new cause for alarm in "evidence that...
...Pandarus, Robert Buckland sacrificed any hint of the corruption or malevolence key to the text to the laughs he could milk by playing as a fawning eunuch. My own reaction to this kind of performance is unprintable but I do think it's an obvious and unrewarding way to alter more accepted interpretations of the character. And this is also true of James Keach's Achilles, a psychopathic narcissistic Hell's Angel type, quickly uninteresting once the gag wears off. A more original job of reinterpretation is Schmidt's casting of Raymond Singer as the venemous fool Thersites, a character...
...high-ranking army officer rang up slumbering President Abdul Rahman Aref and announced: "I am speaking from the Ministry of Defense. Tanks are now proceeding toward the palace." Aref received quick confirmation when five warning shots split the quiet night. He chose to capitulate. Soon, with hardly a hint of further violence, he was put aboard a special Iraqi airliner to join his ailing wife in London. In his place, a nine-man, military "revolutionary Command Council" effortlessly established itself in power...
...After 50 years of full control over the minds of the entire country," writes Sakharov, "the leadership seems afraid of even a hint of debate. Yet the only guarantee of a scientific democratic approach to politics, economic development and culture is intellectual free dom and debate." Sakharov charges that censorship has not only killed "the living soul" of Soviet literature, but is stifling fresh ideas in other creative fields as well. He therefore calls for the abolition of Glavlit, the omnipotent censorship department that rules over the printed word in the Soviet Union, and urges its replacement...
...does he intend to dismantle any more of his empire. With most of his magazines gone, he plans to concentrate on his papers. And he has dropped a hint or two that he might just break into commercial television...