Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time too that the precocious boy first displayed his prodigious gift for things scientific, teaching himself the principles of the combustion engine and fixing the palace's generator whenever it went on the blink. To satisfy his insatiable curiosity about a world he was permitted to glimpse only through the silk-fringed curtains of his golden palanquin, the young ruler set up a projector by which he eagerly devoured Tarzan movies, Henry V and, best of all, home movies of his own capital. Often, he recalls, he would take a telescope onto the palace roof and wistfully gaze...
Faster that you can sneeze or blink your eyes, Harvard set a new ECAC Tournament record for the quickest consecutive goals. The previous record was six seconds, set in three playoffs games (Boston College vs. St. Lawrence, 1967; Cornell vs. Providence, 1971; and Harvard vs. Clarkson...
...alleged kidnap victims, Schmidt, has since been released as a "goodwill gesture." As for Cordes, on the eve of the trial his keepers released his photograph along with a note urging West German authorities to "consider what happens in the coming days and draw the consequences." Bonn did not blink. Declared Klaus Arend, the presiding judge: "We would lose sight of our duty if we were to succumb to pressure...
Computers blink, phones ring, traders frantically shout buy and sell orders in a verbal version of hand-to-hand combat. A typical day on the New York Stock Exchange...
Dale didn't look up. He didn't blink. He simply turned, and neatly took the ball away. Even then he didn't smile...