Word: hinting
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...increasingly confused young man, is trying to discover why a plot, planned many years ago, went wrong. Together, they are writing the history of a friend of the scholar who had planned to assassinate Hitler but never did. Though I won't give away the end, I will hint that the focus of this engrossing play is not the past but the present relationship between the scholar and his assistant. It will be performed beginning November 16 in the third slot at the Loeb...
Carter's relief plan is being accepted by farmers-if only because it offers a safety net. Instinctively, many farmers prefer the vagaries of the free market to even a hint of intervention by Big Government: in this case, however, most recognize that they have come close to being overwhelmed. Ed Burds, 44, owner of a 373-acre spread near Peosta, Iowa, says of the Administration plan: "I don't like it, but that's what we'll have to do. We'd sooner go all out and produce, but we can't when...
...bill the Peking venture merely as "exploratory"-a get-acquainted meeting between the young Carter Administration and China's newly confirmed post-Mao leadership. Said a U.S. official on the eve of Vance's departure: "I can't imagine going on a trip with less prior hint of what's going to come...
...archeological dig in Italy, 20 miles north of Rome. The previous summer I had sat like millions of others in a living room in the middle of suburbia and watched, like a soap opera addict, as one top Nixon aide after another came before the Senate Watergate committee to hint at the various venal sins committed by the administration still in power. Like so many others, I drew the routine conclusion that Nixon was a paranoid scum, and wondered how much longer he would cling to the Oval Office. It took them a year to flush...
...national scene. The New York paper has recovered somewhat, beating the Post to major Washington scoops about CIA domestic spying and drug experimentation on unwitting civilians. The Post has been giving extravagant display to its newsbeats on the Koreagate scandal?in fact, to any stories with the merest hint of wrongdoing. On balance, the Post probably does a more thorough job of covering Washington's politics and government administration, but the Times still carries more weight on the national scene...