Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...population explosion in dolls this year is the best argument yet for birth control at the toy bench. They kiss, they suck thumbs, they wet, and of course talk, laugh, cry, wink, blink and nod. One specimen has three shifting faces: one with measles, one in a convalescent state, and one in smiling health...
Until the very end of the season, the newspapers, the public, and the rest of the National League steadfastly refused to take notice of the Redleg's feat, feeling that if they could only blink their eyes hard enough the specter would go away. Finally, as the year drew to a close, the bemused Cincinnati fans allowed themselves some dancing in the streets; but the resulting chaos was nothing like what Cincinnati could have done had its denizens been able to convince themselves the whole thing was true...
...diplomatic personnel only say on the telephone what they want the Communists to know. The Russians tap telephones so blatantly that-according to a cherished diplomatic legend-a Moscow operator once apologized to a U.S. officer for a delayed phone call, explaining candidly: "The tape recorder is on the blink." Westerners have learned to be even more leary of a telephone when it is resting innocently on the cradle. One of the Poles' pet dodges is to turn an idle receiver into a live mike, a trick most easily accomplished by replacing the phone's regular two-wire...
...their grandfathers by Queen Victoria. All eyes were on Seretse as he swore to bear "true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs and successors." His wife Ruth, whose blonde hair still fascinates the Bamangwato, was smartly turned out in a black silk suit. She had to blink back a tear...
...year, with the tides equally high, he got 61 bushels to the acre, and this year he expects to do even better. In Omaha, Alva Sconce, owner of a lumber company, paid $15,000 to evacuate his yard before the 1952 flood crested. Last year Sconce "didn't blink an eye all spring. But I would have lost the lumber if it wasn't for the dams...