Word: hinting
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...interview, she observed that "you have to have a bit of malice to be a good hostess," and she has been a very good hostess indeed. "I'm afraid I'm rather malevolent about people," she says without a hint of contrition. Embroidered on a small pillow in a second-floor drawing room is her favorite maxim: "If you haven't got anything good to say about anyone, come...
...Nixon would treat his Watergate problems was, of course, the most eagerly anticipated part of his appearance. In his formal address, he slipped in one oblique hint of his determination to ride out the storm. Peace, he said, is "the chief legacy I hope to leave in the eight years of my presidency." The back bench Republicans caught it at once and launched a cheering, standing salute...
...couturier from Givenchy, Balmain, Scherrer and Lapidus to Dior, St. Laurent and Chanel. Marc Bohan, Dior's successor, set the early pace. His skirts were long and supple. His jackets, closed at the waist with a narrow belt, were full and casual. Evening dresses, as diaphanous as lingerie, hint of luxury...
...best that the paper can offer on Watergate is a hearsay account of the forthcoming book by Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; the headline is ominous ("Another time bomb ticking away under the White House"), but the text offers no dynamite ("Insiders hint that Bernstein and Woodward make no new startling disclosures in their book...
...simple sentences that probably lose something for not being read aloud--the fear that what happens to people is not meant to make sense reappears. "Nu, one mustn't know everything," says a bearded woman in one of the book's weaker stories, in which Singer gives so little hint what his story means or might mean that it's just tantalizing, it leads to no hint of resolution. "We walked out on Broadway and the heat hit me like a furnace," Singer says at the end of another story...