Word: blinks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concept by the following variations on the theme, "Mother is not feeling well today": 1) dignified American English for great occasions: "Mother is ill and has retired"; 2) sack-suit American English: "Mother is sick and has gone to bed"; 3) football-field American English: "Mother is on the blink...
...slithers up to the window and stares maliciously at Vag with evil eyes. He opens his well-toothed jaws and measures the distance to Vag's head. There is a metallic crash as teeth meet the iron skull. Vicious fool, you cannot get Vag. See, Vag does not even blink. This is mere phantasmagoria compared to The Four encountered on The Bottom. They were truly fearsome, especially to one numbed with the icy breath of the Great Fear, one who cannot fight back. The Four had come at him--zing, zing, zing, zing--like that. Vag had blinked four times...
...result of chemical changes in the blood. Professor Alexei Dmitrievich Speransky who has Irina & Galina in charge and reported on her to the Gorki All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, thinks he has contradictory evidence. Irina & Galina's two heads share the same blood stream, but they wink, blink & nod off to sleep at different times. Sleep, reasons the professor, as did his celebrated predecessor, Ivan Pavlov, must be a nervous phenomenon...
Weakened by injuries and by the fact that several key men are concentrating in laboratory courses, Lowell has been an in-and-outer all season. Captain Ralph Murphy and Hal Pinanski have featured the backfield while Eric "Blink" Reppun has been an immovable body at left guard...
...Behind him Private Frank Strozier saw the wave. The major flew on, landed at Valparaiso, Fla. aghast to find no Private Strozier in his ship. Then the phone rang. Over the wire came Private Strozier's voice, "You wiggled your hand. I thought the plane was on the blink. I bailed out." Said the major, "I was cold. I wanted you to close the cockpit, not empty...