Word: blinked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed his credentials. He was Ludger Dionne,* first-term member of the Canadian House of Commons from St. Georges, in Quebec's Beauce County and he was in Germany with the approval of the Canadian Government and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. What he wanted made UNRRA officials blink: 100 girls, preferably Poles...
Sandhogs-the tough, clannish men who burrow tunnels and subways under rivers and streets-don't startle easily. But a contract awarded in Baltimore last week startled them. What made them blink was the name of the successful bidder: Sam Rosoff, the world's No. 1 subway builder. The job, digging a $9 million, seven-mile-long water tunnel under Baltimore, will be Rosoff's first important contract within the U.S. since 1939. Sandhogs had thought that "Subway Sam" had finished with digging...
Bandied from Clarence Streit's pillar of zeal to the post of public apathy during the past seven years, the vital issue of world government--if, when, and how--has recently emerged from its shell of naivete to blink its eyes to world political realities. Out of the recent merger of six large American organizations--student and general--pledged to some form of strong federal international organization, some hope may now be advance that the confusion over this question among its adherents may be dissipated. The lessons learned by those who formed the United World Federalists at Asheville, North Carolina...
...Hall's marble Civil War heroes may well blink with surprise today as all estimated 4900 undergraduates pase in review, starting at 8:30 o'clock, to sign up for the '47 spring term. Coupled with the 446 envelopes picked up last week by new arrivals, today's registration is expected to hold enrollment figures close to the 5402 record set this past fall...
...week's end, when the Williamsburg moved into Narragansett Bay, he was sporting a two-day beard. He had a second sensation in reserve. When the yacht tied up at the Quonset (R.I.) Naval Air Base, he broke out a cap which made shoreside loiterers blink-a white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken...