Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factory foreman who said that "my lead man is a colored boy" was later dismissed. Seale's own prejudices, in fact, affected the proceedings. When Garry questioned a white employee of the Schick Safety Razor Co., for example, Seale scribbled on paper: "His eyes don't blink. MECHANICAL CHAUVINIST." Garry used one of his last challenges to excuse...
...away whatever far-fetched hopes it had for an upset, however, as the Crimson unwound with four goals in less than three minutes. By the time the buzzer mercifully ended the period for Yale goalie Bill Fitzsimmons, he had faced a 23-shot barrage and seen the red light blink over his head five times...
...phone, and yelled hello. After establishing that it was truly I, Hughes wanted to know if I didn't feel better rested than I had at 11. Then he suggested that I should drive to the intersection of Olympic and Sepulveda boulevards, park at the southwest corner, blink my lights twice, and wait for a two-tone, 1954 Mercury sedan to come alongside. Then?−but he had rung...
...kaleidoscopic Christmas displays began to blink on at stores along the main streets of the nation's cities last week, the mood of the merchants was anything but festive. Downtown retailers are hoping for a holiday buying spree to offset a year of laggard sales and inflation-riddled earnings. Economists are hoping for consumer spending to be a strong force in revitalizing the economy. The prospects for the near future are not promising...
...English country house, the home of Andrew Wyke (Anthony Quayle), a successful mystery writer. Into the room comes Milo Tindle (Keith Baxter), a travel agent. Tindle has been having a surreptitious affair with Wyke's wife. After a swift courtesy drink has been poured, Wyke makes Tindle blink by saying, "I understand you want to marry my wife." "Well, yes," gulps Tindle, "with your permission, of course," and a duel to the death begins between...