Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favored needy sit, dull as cattle, while a coolie ladles their gruel out of a wooden bucket. Many are rheumy-eyed from malnutrition and blink and squint constantly as they slup their food. The sound is like the suction of noisy plumbing. When they are through, they wrap their bowls and chopsticks in cotton rags and go quietly away to wait for another meal...
...would be entirely futile to blink the fact that the two great rival ideologies-democracy in the west and Communism in the east-here find themselves face to face with the desperate need for mutual understanding...
...goings-on at St. Albans Naval Hospital on Long Island were enough to make any Navy captain blink. Sailors and marines were involved; so were WAVES and civilians. It was happening in phone booths, on the ladders, even in the middle of the corridors. To tough-minded Captain C. F. Behrens, executive officer, it was a matter for emergency action. He drafted a stern, four-paragraph memorandum: "Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden...
...shutter opens, a whopping charge of electricity (2,000 volts) surges through the tube from a condenser, with a light as bright as the sun. The flash is so bright that the natural lighting of the subject doesn't matter. A child can move his head or blink his eyes without blurring the picture. The flash lasts only about one-25,000th of a second. Photographed at this speed, even the humming blades of an electric fan appear to be standing still...
Four months before Pearl Harbor, he had been adjusting washers on the final assembly line, when the foreman switched him to a new line-hydraulic wheel retractors for aircraft. The swift scrambling of the plant's orderly insides had made Emil blink. His work week had jumped from 40 to 84 hours. Emil had hardly been able to see the fat overtime pay checks. But as the plant clanked out of its surprise, the hours came back to a reasonable 48, and Emil was again earning his usual dollar an hour, plus time and a half...