Word: blink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...limit to his party, he remained faithful, not only when the President kept him from becoming majority leader, but even when the White House double-crossed him on legislative matters. As chairman of the Finance Committee, he steered through the Senate New Deal legislation which made him wince and blink-a man as loyal as he was able, who, if he had had a little more energy, might have gone down in history as one of America's great statesmen...
Last week found the U.S. again in the season when scientists come out of their laboratories, blink, stretch and bustle off to share with the world their newest findings. Some of the more newsworthy disclosures at two noteworthy science meetings...
Allen Trevaskis '42 and Winny White '42 of Kirkland House were confidently at work yesterday fixing a newly acquired refrigerator which had gone suddenly on the blink, when the smell of sulfur began to fill the room. Before a leak of poisonous sulfur dioxide from the icebox was suspected, the two were half asphixiated...
...this generation of Dodger fans, as devoted as they are daffy, the 1940 team is second to none. Even rival clubs admit the Dodgers have a crack infield and their pitchers have made them blink. Brooklyn may not boast a DiMaggio or a Feller, but, in its first nine games, the assorted collection of castoffs and come-ups assembled by President Larry MacPhail and Manager Leo Durocher proved that they are a clicking machine...
Like a slow ribbon of cigar smoke in a smoky room, a story curled around the House of Representatives last week. It got in Congressmen's eyes, made them cough and blink. The story was as hard to take as a Wheeling stogie, and like a stogie, it carried a kick...