Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That hint of danger had not dissuaded the nine Americans, most of them normally sedentary landlubbers, from boarding the sturdy 48-ft. fishing trawler Gabriella in Kingston, Jamaica, and heading into the windswept Caribbean on a stomach-churning 124-mile, 15-hour voyage to U.S.-owned Navassa Island, 30 miles west of Haiti. Unaccountably cheerful through the stormy night, the five-man Jamaican crew and the boat's Kingston owner, Gilbert Thompson ("I couldn't trust the responsibility of this trip to just the crew"), kept the craft on course toward its tiny target: a flat-topped limestone...
...Most analysts would like to see a deficit under $100 billion, instead of the $180 billion now projected. Says John Paulus of the Goldman, Sachs investment firm: "It's impossible to over estimate the aid and comfort that a budget compromise would give the financial markets." Even the hint of such a compromise last week sent , some short-term interest rates down slightly...
...effectively ended Dizzy Dean's career with a line drive smash that broke his toe? (Hint: it happened in the 1937 all-star game...
...know Mickey Mantle suffered from the debilitating bone disease, osteomyelitis, but can you name the all-star right fielder who also suffered from the disease? (Hint: He was a contemporary of Mantle...
...Does anyone remember the player who drove in the most runs in his rookie season? (Hint: He was the last person before George Brett to average more than an RBI per game...