Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea is that the note, once in the chubby fingers of Chernenko, suggests a certain intimacy and shared responsibility that only the two of them can appreciate. The hope is to plant in the Soviet leader's mind the hint that Ron might not be all bad and maybe the two should warm...
...From whom did Tocqueville, while touring American suburbs, steal his famous one-liner that "the grass is always greener over the septic tank"? Hint: Henry David Thoreau is a good guess, but wrong...
There is a hint of where the columns come from when Bombeck is persuaded to talk about herself. "My life story?" she says. "Fifteen minutes top. You're looking at shallow. I'm just not that deep. You're looking at a bundle of insecurity. I always think that everything good is going to evaporate and disappear overnight. I am the quietest person at the party. I position myself at the chip dip and don't leave all night. I still have a very ordinary, simple person trapped in this rich, gorgeous, successful body." The joke...
...earlier denied reports that he officially sought to be included in the Normandy gathering. According to his aides, however, he had indicated to French President Francois Mitterrand last February that in the spirit of reconciliation, he would not mind being present. Mitterrand shrugged off the hint, and Kohl swallowed the rejection. Said Kohl last week: "The German Chancellor has no reason to celebrate when others celebrate a victory in battle that cost 10,000 German soldiers their lives." Neither Bonn nor the West German public took much comfort from a French compromise whereby, on June 8, French and German officials...
...strike harder elsewhere. The ayatullahs are simply not ready to give up until they have destroyed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Says a senior army officer in Tehran: "Military capabilities and options are being examined and re-examined every day. But from the clergy there is not even a hint of the possibility of peace...