Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day the country had cause to blink again. A Northrop YB-49 eight-jet Flying Wing-a weird, batlike sky monster which is almost twice as heavy as the Stratojet-flew from Muroc, Calif, to Andrews Air Force Base in four hours and 25 minutes. Average for 2,259 miles: 511.2 miles an hour...
...dilutes the never-too-potent subacids of J. P. Marquand's socio-political satire into the sort of eyewash that is the chief ingredient of every "woman's picture." Marquand fans may be surprised at how easily the acid lost its effect; most moviegoers are sure to blink unhappily at what is left...
...Inconstant Eye. In Britain's Nature magazine, Dr. Robert W. Lawson of the University of Sheffield considers the human blink. For the average (J-type) eye, says Dr. Lawson, blinks last about .3 seconds and come about 2.8 seconds apart...
...Radcliffe member pulled out a huge pipe from her handbag, piled it high with aromatic tobacco, and started smoking with all the guest of an old salt. The ten male writers sitting around the table were left gaping for only a second; from then on they refused to blink, and so the class ended happily...
...interested as Alice in Wonderland, Houston shoppers last week crowded into a new kind of department store-window-less,* monolithic Foley's. On the opening day, 200,000 customers came to blink at the indirect lighting, peer through streamlined showcases at $6,500,000 worth of merchandise and enjoy the air conditioning (it was 89° outside...