Word: hinting
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...demanded that the whole Cabinet resign. He asserted that the entire Labor Party must accept the responsibility for the mistakes of the war. But some, he said, were more guilty than others. That was an undisguised attack on Dayan, who answered: "You can bring my resignation with the smallest hint. I am not glued to my seat...
...hollow symbolism may have destroyed its viability, Quadrophenia's Jimmy is accessible thematically and physically, as far as two dimensions will carry him. The picture book insert not only fleshes out the scenario, but gives the listener an almost tangible hero. At the same time there is that hint of Townshend mysticism. The idea of fusing the band's personality into one character serves as anchor and springboard...
...great bank robberies of all time was pulled off early this month without a hint that it was happening. The loot was not cash but $15.3 million in negotiable Treasury bills. The certificates simply vanished from a locked and guarded room at headquarters of the Chase Manhattan Bank during normal business hours. Last week the FBI and New York City detectives were still looking for the bills and for clues...
...lush, subtropical greens of Canton's trees and parks give almost no hint that fall is upon China. But there are other sights and sounds that do. On a typical November morning, the city's hordes of bicyclists are likely to be disturbed by trucks roaring out into the suburbs with gongs clanging and crimson banners flying. The trucks are full of high-school graduates who are being sent out for two years' manual work in the countryside "to learn from the peasants," in accordance with a Mao Tse-tung instruction first given in 1968 during...
...ground of what he calls the Imperial Presidency: that is, an Executive power that fed upon international commitments and a continuous real or imagined danger from sinuous enemies, who could be combat ted only by the President with a vast military budget and a network of spies. Taking a hint from Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, Harry Truman, one of Schlesinger's villains, "scared hell out of the American people." Like the Presidents who followed him, he freely distorted U.S. history to prove he had an inherent, unchallengeable constitutional power to act at home and abroad, in the interest...