Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeking ways to avert a long series of such defeats, the Johnson Administration continued to hint that it is seriously considering fundamental changes in the ground rules under which it has waged the war. The State Department announced the 'creation of a new interagency task force to reassess the whole deteriorating situation. It is headed by William H. Sullivan, 41, a special assistant to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman, and it will report directly to Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...scattering of sportswriters took defeat hard enough to hint "fix," but the rest took their medicine. And bitter it was. "Hypocrites!" yelled Cassius Clay at the press conference. "Whatcha gonna say now, huh? Huh? Who's the greatest?" "Cassius," came the faint reply-too faint to satisfy the new champ. "Let's really hear it!" he hollered. "Who's the greatest? I'll give you one more chance: Who's the greatest?" The chant was loud and clear. "You, Cassius, you. You're the greatest...
Such a commission, Freund said, "would have the advantage of being a disinterested group, designed by the President himself, and prepared to take action without any hint of extraneous motivations...
...Hint of Reason. In any case, the Kremlin for years to come will be faced with mounting economic pressures that will at least discourage metal-eating military budgets. A minor $666 million cutback in Soviet defense spending announced last month was, Khrushchev insisted, the result not of economic difficulties but of "considerations of common sense guided by a sincere desire for peace." Moreover, during Russia's Western-aided chemicalization, itself a far more rational exercise than pouring rubles into an ever-increasing steel capacity that Moscow needs mostly for prestige, the note of reasonableness may just possibly persist...
...pinched-I conquered-I told male who has always appealed to the Latin imagination as the quintessence of manhood. When he starts his ego building exercises in the bedroom of Rosetta (Ornella Vanoni), that married lady's husband breaks one of Rugantino's fingers as a hint to keep hands off. Apart from palming off his mistress on an aging lecher (Aldo Fabrizi), most of Rugantino's pranks backfire. He tosses a dead cat into an aristocratic wake, and is forced to eat the cooked carcass in an epicurean setting. His Chaplinesque resilience does not fail...