Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first hint came in a statement from the general command of the Iranian armed forces, which called for "new stances in order to continue the sacred defense." Then came a startling message from Iranian President Ali Khamenei to United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, declaring Tehran's willingness to abide by U.N. Resolution 598, the measure calling for a cease-fire in the eight-year-old war between Iran and Iraq. Still, much of the world remained skeptical, aware that Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini had personally vowed to continue the fighting "with the last drop of blood...
...more of the smart same. Young MacPee-wee has a farm that is a sort of summer camp -- high camp -- for animals. In the barn, the sheep and cow sleep in beds. For breakfast the horse flaps pancakes, and Pee-wee's talking-pig pal devours them. At the hint of a hurricane, Pee-wee leads his brood into the storm cellar ("Women and chickens first!") and dresses them in party hats. Because there are no other humans on the farm and few children nearby, Pee-wee is his own role model, his only playmate, and the film...
Such passages, the self-abasements of a clearly superior partner, make painful reading. But Wharton's love letters are stirring in other ways. She could discreetly hint at sexual arousal intensified by social constraint: "You can't come into the room without my feeling all over me a ripple of flame." Writhing under Fullerton's sporadic indifference, she could summon up reserves of anger and pride: "What you wish, apparently, is to take of my life the inmost & uttermost that a woman -- a woman like me -- can give, for an hour, now & then, when it suits you; & when the hour...
...word is sensibilidad. It refers to a quality of temperament easier to recognize than define, a spacious basket of subtleties: strength without roughness, pride tempered with humor, a hint of festival, a tinge of tragedy. Like the monolithic term Hispanic, it tends to blur the individual colors of each distinct Latin culture, and yet artists, designers, actors and authors from all corners of Latin culture resort to the word when others fail to capture just what is most infectious about a Latin sense of style...
...summit meeting, the leaders of the seven major industrialized countries, or G-7, issued a communique that showed no distinct resolve to fight a dollar rally, saying only that an increase in the currency's value "could be counterproductive." Traders took that language -- correctly or not -- as a subtle hint that a mild runup in the dollar would be tolerated...