Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once he got us so lost I resorted to firing three shots in rapid succession. But the light was bad and I missed him." At other times McManus offers addled expertise. He tells new husbands how to build up a gun collection without attracting the attention of their wives. Hint: get the little woman to stop counting rifles and start thinking "all those guns." He also offers some badly needed collective nouns, based on the pattern of an exaltation of larks: a sulk of unsuccessful fishermen, a whiff of skunk trappers, a cramp of camp cooks. All of which should...
...weaponry it has scheduled for the next few years as a kind of research program, to see if any of the technologies involved look feasible, rather than as developmental testing of deployable weapons. Even so, William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs, voiced the hope that Gorbachev's hint about accepting some research was a "beginning" and an "invitation to negotiation." Hyland's advice: when arms-control talks resume in Geneva next week, Chief U.S. Negotiator Max Kampelman should "take (Soviet Delegation Chief Victor) Karpov aside and say he is intrigued and wants to know more about...
...himself to the entire White House press corps, though not as frequently as his predecessors. His senior aides, who are owlishly circumspect on the Sunday TV talk shows, can be more forthcoming in private interviews when guaranteed anonymity. The awkwardness of this arrangement is that the press can only hint that its information comes from the horse's mouth and that this particular horse is not just any old dray horse. Such anonymous sourcing is irritating to the reader, and a burden on the press's credibility, but remains a useful device to convey what really seems to be afoot...
...whether there is an explosion or whether there are sanctions, we are involved. As a matter of both principle and self-interest, we want to do everything possible to avert that explosion. Final arrangements can only be determined by the South Africans themselves. But we might give a hint: It's always dangerous giving too little too late. I told Mr. Botha in my (Botswana) border meeting with him in 1982, "You and the moderate whites in commerce, the moderate blacks in commerce form a very substantial middle group. You should together form a new structure for the country, politically...
...General Secretary formally passed his answers to TIME's written questions, signed by him, across the table. "I'm giving this to you in a green folder," said Gorbachev. "Not even a hint of the export of revolution." He then began the spoken interview with an opening statement...