Word: blinkingly
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...Illinois Pavilion, Audio-ani-matronic Abe Lincoln, who had been suffering from electronic megrims until engineers fiddled with the circuitry that makes his eyes blink, his voice rasp and his hands gesture, began to work. Abe rose to greet 500 people at a time, pushed back his coattails and gave them a ten-minute talk on liberty, gleaned from six of his speeches: "What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts . . . Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage...
...drawn exhaustion of her face. As in her earlier films, she coolly suggests prodigious experience with few scars. Her mahogany voice manages to create an air of sex without regret. Her steady eyes look through anything they see, and she creates the impression that no detonation could make her blink...
...sure sign that all are concerned. It is really unavoidable. You are constantly agonizing over the answers you made to the last questionnaire, wondering whether an occasional flippancy (absolutely irresistible! I assmume you're acquainted with the inanities that psychologists slip into) is going to make a red light blink on the grading machine and a pink slip pop out. Of course, it turns out not to be that bad. Nonetheless, some ten people were culled out over the training period. In most cases, the wisdom of 'selecting out' was apparent, but a couple were puzzling. The selection board...
...skirt afternoon number called the "Tom Jones" was so generously scooped that a single false step-and zut! alors! "We think women are glad to have such decolletage," said a Dior spokesman. But as soon as the show was over, the suddenly-modest models buttoned up quick as a blink before rushing out to bestow the usual congratulatory kisses on their mentor...
...freight's most ardent advocates predict that it will turn the U.S. into one vast market "five hours wide and 21 hours deep." That day is still some distance away, but an industry that does not blink at moving a 2,300-lb. cookie is quite capable of making the dream a reality. Right now, in fact, air freight is growing twice as fast as passenger travel...