21.   Each time, he smiled broadly, offering no hint of discomfort.

22.   Even so, campaigns have a way of offering hints of what is just over the horizon of the election.

23.   Even the Senate leader, Joseph Bruno, offered hints of support early last week.

24.   Even the GDP report offered hints of a slowdown.

25.   For West Nile, at least the American strain, birds, and particularly crows, offer a hint of possible trouble to come.

26.   Gates, upbeat and intense, offered no hint that fatigue or weariness had weighed in the decision.

27.   He called the trip personal, offering no hint as to what his policy on the Middle East would be should he become president.

28.   He offered few hints of his direction Thursday.

29.   He offers no hint at retirement.

30.   He speaks in a whispery voice that offers tantalizing hints of his onetime verbal dexterity.