Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been needed in an earlier era. It is perfectly all right, Mazzei assures readers, to refuse a gift of cocaine or some other illicit drug from a business associate-but be polite. Baldrige adds that, to avoid making the person uncomfortable, the corporate class act would be to hint that you use drugs-but not this one. The two also agree that anyone who plays the radio while working should get a Walkman if a co-worker objects to the noise...
...intending to take up an equally conventional career as a model civil servant. The youth devised a program of Knowledge, Fervor and Moral Beauty. He became engaged to a pretty 18-year-old whom he congratulated on her good fortune. "Am I not noble, Wilhelmine?" he asked, with no hint of self-mockery...
DIED. John Williams, 80, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), ever-so-straight, mustachioed British-born actor who inevitably played the impeccable Englishman (with just an arched-eyebrow hint of pompousness) in a career of more than 50 years; of a ruptured blood vessel; in La Jolla, Calif. His most famous role was the somewhat distracted, tenacious police inspector in both the stage and film productions of Dial M for Murder...
...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 well 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...