Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of redeploying American forces touches raw European nerves like no other. The slightest hint of altering present arrangements jangles sensibilities; it evokes fears of American withdrawal and prospects of European neutralism. But if present trends continue, it is certain to become a central issue in the alliance relationship. Before dealing with it in the context of a program of NATO reform, a few facts must be noted...
There is more than a hint of superiority in these feelings. Many Christians, for example, prefer to speak French rather than Arabic, as if to say, "I may be Lebanese and an Arab, but I am different...
...pushing 60 in chronological fact but he looks as if he is barely pushing 50' And while it's inspiring to see his famous piercing gaze undimmed by the passing years, his vigor vitiates his attempt to portray a man to whom death has dropped a broad hint, just as it undermined his try at alcoholic despair in The Verdict & year ago He does his best to hide his glow, but the effort makes him seem absentminded...
There were signs last week that the logjam at the top had finally begun to break. Soviet officials hinted to members of the French delegation that Gorbachev who is responsible for agriculture, had emerged from the Central Committee session as the No. 2 man in the leadership and that he might soon be given "a high rank in the state bureaucracy." If Andropov had been grooming Gorbachev to succeed him, as had been widely thought, Gorbachev was apparently shrewd enough not to press his claims now. In a move that could be significant, he gave the closing address...
...brought the U.S. the most satisfying result of all, a gallant 1-2 slalom finish by Phil and Steve Mahre in the final Olympic performances of their careers. It had been a wild week of ski racing, and maybe it was those crazy ski suits that gave the first hint. Nobody had ever seen anything like them: weird spirals of glowing pink and black, or yellow and orange, snaking up each leg and across the bottom-astonishing, even in hindsight-and then up the trunk and down the arms. Even as the Mahres did their twin-brother act one more...