Word: hinting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even in those early days, signs might have pointed an expert on alcoholism toward my growing problem. One hint was my immediate tendency to drink to unconsciousness. At parties, I would often fall asleep in mid-hullabaloo on the couch. That drew plenty of jokes at the time. Only much later did I recognize that I had been passing out. Another signal was an initial, abnormally high tolerance for alcohol, at least until the passing-out stage. I thought I could hold my liquor pretty well. Now I think it means that my body was being less dutiful than most...
Kennedy has not given any hint whether he would uphold or reverse the decision if given the chance (which is certain to come: Roe was reaffirmed in 1986 by only 5 to 4, with Powell casting the deciding vote). Stanford Law Professor Jack Friedenthal predicts, "He would start with the fact that it has been decided. I strongly suspect he would never have voted for it in the first place, but part of judicial restraint is the question of whether a person is going to reverse a Supreme Court decision that is now part of the fabric of society." Even...
...grave. This source was the one who allowed me to break the story of how the cafeteria snack-bar had hiked the price of Snickers Bar from 25 to 35 cents. The source (whose name I cannot reveal by name but I'll just give you a hint: he is a Tailor who works at "Rosie's" on Wall Street near Naples and can't stop talking), has given me many other stories, as well...
This source, whose name I cannot reveal (but let me give you a hint: be's the Yale Provost), was the one who turned me on to the fact that Serge Lang had been instrumental in founding the dating service on which Douglas Ginsberg worked, but was brutally fired from after he was caught following clients out on dates and peeping in their windows once they had gone to bed with their dates...
That laugh, a lusty guffaw about two sizes too large for her 120-lb. frame, is the first hint of something intriguingly unpredictable in Close. Similarly, the controlled expression on her high-cheekboned face often seems at odds with the light in her gray-green eyes. As her Attraction co-star Michael Douglas says, "she always looks like she has a secret...