Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Survival can bring a kind of smugness, a moral certainty that there is an absolute code to obey and a single straight path to follow. Hynde's songs never carry a hint of this. She may have forced a land of necessary rapprochement with her recklessness, but the fire still burns bright-perhaps against the night. She speaks intensely of Natalie, and of "a real feeling of humanity that I hadn't had before." But she also thinks often of a past that dwells persistently, inescapably in the present. "I think about death every day. Always...
...Shultz-Weinberger-Casey-McFarlane statement gave a strong hint of Ronald Reagan's probable response. "The real issues," it said, "are whether we in the United States want to stand by and let a Communist government in Nicaragua export violence and terrorism in this hemisphere...
...Vienna aimed at reducing NATO and Warsaw Pact troop levels in Europe. Discussions between the U.S. and the Soviets on such matters as the opening of a new consulate in each nation and resuming cultural exchanges will probably take place within a few weeks. There is even a hint of movement on the nuclear front: an Administration study group is in the process of examining potential new compromises in the stalled strategic arms talks. Says a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "The time seems right to move matters Soviet off dead center...
...sudden growth in the G.N.P., saying, "I'm somewhat surprised at the strength of the economy but will be terribly concerned only if growth reaches 10%." This week moneymen and the financial markets will be peering at the Federal Reserve meeting in the hope of getting a hint about future interest-rate trends...
...Walter Mondale's aura of invincibility was such that almost everybody forgot about New Hampshire's quirky politics and unusual demographics. The polls contained no hint of an upset in the making: only a week before the primary, an ABC-Washington Post poll showed Mondale first with 37% and Gary Hart third (behind John Glenn) with 13%. The Mondale campaign serenely cruised about the state in long motorcades, with scores of reporters and television crews in tow. Hart bounced around in vans, with few reporters and fewer TV cameras in sight. As he wandered into coffee shops, Hart...