Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most successful ads seem to indicate a quivering sensibility or a rakish, humorous personality, perhaps with a naughty hint of "life in the fast lane." The New York Review of Books often features a mock high-cultural tone ("Man who is a serious novel would like to hear from a woman who is a poem"). Sincere is the lowest-ranking adjective, says Sherri Foxman, author of a new book on the subject, Classified Love. "If you write 'Sincerewoman seeking sincere man,' you're going to get 25 boring letters." Since standards of accuracy are not always rigorous...
...first hint of the now-booming industrial interest in the biotechnology field came in 1974. When Monsanto agreed to give the Medical School $23 million over 12 years in exchange for exclusive licensing rights to any product developed under its funds...
Melody smelody. The fact is that boredom is going to be a major factor in this marathon. How do you make a fellow presidential and yet exciting? Gary Hart lets his brown cowboy boots stick out from under his gray pinstripes, a hint of the hombre. John Glenn took an F-16 fighter up for a spin over Texas, and in California "landed" the space shuttle in a simulator, both stunts tailored for the evening news. But boots and jets will not keep the audience interested for two more years. Hart is rehearsing some showstoppers. In Los Angeles the other...
...mission in Geneva or in the glass-and-steel office building that houses the U.S. headquarters near by. Although the discussions between U.S. Arms Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky, are being conducted behind a veil of secrecy, West Europeans have been watching assiduously for any hint, wink or nod that might reveal how the talks are progressing. Reason: one of the most emotionally charged issues of the 1983 international calendar, namely whether NATO will deploy 572 new U.S.-built nuclear missiles starting next year to respond to the buildup of Soviet intermediate-range SS-20 missiles...
...stands between the 100,000 Soviet troops that invaded Afghanistan and the eastern flank of the Persian Gulf region. Under U.N. auspices, it has been negotiating indirectly with the Soviet Union to achieve a complete Soviet troop withdrawal. Cautiously optimistic last week, Zia revealed that he had detected "a hint of flexibility" during his 45-minute meeting last month with new Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov...