Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undiplomatic anger. Speaking to an American Legion delegation, he declared, "We want to raise the cost to those animals that hold the hostages." Yet Shultz, a strong advocate of last April's U.S. bombing of Libya to punish Leader Muammar Gaddafi's support for terrorism, shied away from any hint that Washington would launch military action to free kidnaped Americans in Lebanon or take reprisals against their captors. Said Shultz: "We should not go running around using our capacity for force right and left...
...fundraising dinner on Thursday the governor dropped the biggest hint so far about his larger political ambitions...
...himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce it barbarities...
...presence. The disputes forced Reagan to focus and drew him toward decisions. But in two years as chief of staff, Donald Regan has kept most of such controversy away from the President. Regan generally mediates the battles and presents the President with sanitized position papers that give little hint of the cacophony outside. Says one alumnus of the White House staff: "Regan sits through two-hour meetings, then gives the President a two-minute synopsis. Reagan does best when he is challenged. Regan has taken away the challenge...
...This hint at sexlessness is further developed in another piece. Featuring yet another unique style, "Overture and Incidental Music for a `Midsummer Night's Dream'" develops a name in Shakespeare's play into a character, the Herm. This creature is simultaneously the source of desire and puzzlement to all the denizens of the forest--from Puck, who is a hairy, horny little bugger in Carter's fantasy, to Oberon and Titania...