Word: winked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...range of acceptance is strictly limited. It cannot examine a field and a pretty girl, and conclude from the data available which would be more worth cultivating. Such semi-tangibles are not for it. Figures alone it accepts, in floods and mazes. Quick as a midget's wink, it adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, raises to powers, extracts roots (square or better). It blends the figures together, mixes them with constants such as the speed of light. "It's a robot," says Dr. Aiken, "and does just what it's told...
...electric current. Thorez' wife retorted that two factors, lack of coal and the drought, had caused the power shortage. Production Minister Marcel Paul had spurred the miners on to increase coal production until it exceeded the prewar level. Then salty Jeannette Vermeersch added with a wink: "And, comrades, we don't believe in God-but it rained. Today there is plenty of current...
Most 20th-century artists feel the presence of a little black rival in their studios. A round glass eye seems to stare fixedly over their shoulders and to imply, with an occasional clicking wink, that the camera can see and record better than they...
...Venice with a gentleman poet. ". . . Always drifting about the canals in a gondola with [him]," exclaimed Anthony Blanche, who was as "ageless as a lizard" and knew the family well "-such attitudes, my dear, like Madame Recamier; once, I passed them, and [the] gondolier . . . gave me such a wink. . . . She sucks [men's] blood. You can see the toothmarks all over Adrian's . . . shoulders when he is bathing...
...walk along the Bois de Boolong, With an independent air, You can hear the girls declare 'He must be a millionaire.' You can hear them sigh and 'wish to die,' You can see them wink the other eye At the man who broke the bank at Monte...