Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elway stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and does not stand still. Even at a perfectly sculpted 202 Ibs., say the scouts, he has the footwork of a middleweight boxer. Besides Elway's passing ability, they admire his "escapability," a word with a hint of a shiver in it, evoking images of 280-lb. linemen and broken bones. Still, given his choice, Elway asserted he would never elect baseball as a safer course. In his heart, he was a football player who played baseball on the side, not the other way around...
There was more than a hint of embarrassment, though. The report provided details on eleven "principal flaws" in the preparation and production of the program. Among them: a failure to prove that there was a "conspiracy" to underreport enemy troop strength; failure to identify one of the sources as a "paid consultant"; "an imbalance in presenting the two sides of the issue"; and the "coddling of sympathetic witnesses" when the documentary was filmed. Also included in the report were transcripts of some interviews done for the show that displayed apparent coaching of a source by a CBS journalist...
...Washington provided a new indication that he will seek a second term. But his wording constituted another example of his determination to hide that intention, at least in the sense of formal public announcement, until the moment of maximum political advantage-which, some of his aides have begun to hint, may come even later than the September declaration they once had anticipated...
Memos of 1965 meeting hint at company's fears...
...also happily managed, without a hint of the domestic turbulence that made so many headlines during some of Mailer's earlier marriages. Friends give much of the credit for this newly found tranquillity to Norris, 34, a statuesque beauty and talented painter from Arkansas, whom Mailer met in 1975 and married five years later. Says Author E.L. Doctorow (Ragtime), who once served as Mailer's editor before his own writing career prospered: "My feeling is that since he's married Norris he's been happier than he's ever been." Torres views the success...