Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Merritt Parkway one night last week, a Navy chief petty officer named Franklin Jenson saw an unusual sight : an empty state police car was standing at the side of the road with its big rear warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...
...Favors Wanted. When he was asked about the Stop Kefauver drive, Kefauver didn't blink an eye. "I have heard no such report," he said blandly, "and I discount it. The National Committee is supposed to keep a hands-off policy in relation to candidates, and as far as I know, is doing that. I ask no favors . . . and this is as it ought...
Herbert has a facial tic, especially when, as usual, he is worried. His eyes blink of themselves. On a park bench or in a railway train he is often startled, in the middle of agonized reflection about the insecurity of everything in the world, by the rising up of some furious young woman to call a policeman or pull the communication cord. And when he tries to explain himself, he is seized with a stammer which still further alarms the lady. The situation, as he expected from the beginning, then becomes hopeless. The lady has hysterics, and Herbert can only...
...Pittsburgh diocese, Bishop Pardue has started a new training program for ministers that would make many an old-line prelate blink. Next summer, between, their graduation from college and admission to seminary, prospective ministers will work in a steel mill or coal mine. By arrangement with Pardue's good friend and parishioner, Ben Moreell, president of Jones & Laughlin, parsons-to-be will learn their way around the blast furnaces and Bessemers as ordinary laborers. As many as possible will live in the homes of foremen and mill hands...
...when Davie starts raving about the roadside diner he can buy for $300, and spouting the combination and cash contents of the rickety old safe, Pa Eder-ly's eyes blink without tears. Pretending a fear of robbers, Pa and the family stoke the safe with $300. "Given money, wheedled money, is always back to wheedle again," Pa muses. "With taken money it's a different story; it goes and stays." That night, as the rest huddle sadly near an upstairs window, Davie skedaddles with the loot, goes "to make his million, down the black road...