Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Question: Name a new book by an editor of the Washington Post dealing with the subject of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hint: Bob Woodward's much ballyhooed Veil, an expose by the renowned Watergate reporter of the deeds and alleged confessions of the late director William J. Casey, does not count. Reward: those who come up with the correct answer can settle down to read an uncommonly informative and intriguing espionage thriller...
...Marxist-led guerrillas; they failed to sign a cease-fire but agreed to keep talking. More surprising, negotiators for the Guatemalan government and leftist rebels conferred in Madrid. They issued a terse statement claiming, "Both sides consider that the climate of the talks was satisfactory." That was the first hint that either side might be willing to settle a brutal guerrilla war that has claimed 30,000 lives in the past 16 years...
Telephone connections with Burkina Faso were cut, but the State Department in Washington said some shooting was heard last night in Ouagadougou. Burkina Radio did not mention fighting and gave no hint of the former president's whereabouts or fate...
...September. The chairman of Toys "R" Us declared that though this was a slow period, he was excited about the Christmas season. True to Gap tradition, Chairman Fisher refused to reveal any projections for third-quarter earnings. In the past, though, company officials had offered at least a hint of whether sales were up or down. This time there was not a word, and the analysts got queasy. "We are a forgiving lot," says Walter Loeb of Morgan Stanley. "Had Gap advised us about what was happening, we would have stayed with it. But we on the Street...
...Counter- Reformation. Dark, admonitory and raw, it seems overwhelmingly real in every detail, from the coarse weave of the woolen habit (with a frayed hole at the elbow, emblematic of poverty, brilliantly accentuated with a few impasto flicks of white light on the dangling threads to give a hint of contrast to * the massive carving of the rest of the forms) to the shrouded face whose eyes Zurbaran loses in blackness to suggest the hermetic nature of the saint's vision. His gaping mouth is doubled in the gaping eye sockets of the skull he clutches. The eyeline...