Word: blinkingly
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...being blackmailed by his bosses. A while back he had run over and killed a child, and he had been saved from prison by the studio's wiliest finagling. Now, when he balks, the studio threatens jail. Later, when things get messier, the studio doesn't blink at plotting the murder of a blabbing witness. Charlie finally feels driven to suicide...
Smoker committeemen have pieced together a program which they hope will make the staid, marble Civil War heroes who line Memorial Hall blink...
...next day the country had cause to blink again. A Northrop YB-49 eight-jet Flying Wing-a weird, batlike sky monster which is almost twice as heavy as the Stratojet-flew from Muroc, Calif, to Andrews Air Force Base in four hours and 25 minutes. Average for 2,259 miles: 511.2 miles an hour...
...dilutes the never-too-potent subacids of J. P. Marquand's socio-political satire into the sort of eyewash that is the chief ingredient of every "woman's picture." Marquand fans may be surprised at how easily the acid lost its effect; most moviegoers are sure to blink unhappily at what is left...
...Inconstant Eye. In Britain's Nature magazine, Dr. Robert W. Lawson of the University of Sheffield considers the human blink. For the average (J-type) eye, says Dr. Lawson, blinks last about .3 seconds and come about 2.8 seconds apart...