Word: winked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been fun, but I would have liked to hear some of the answers." Her only kick against Harvard men was that she "hates to have them say Wellesley girls are popular and cute, and Radcliffe girls such students drips. They're not all, you know," she added with a wink...
After the first 48 hours of this risky work, Lieut. Bhagat's commander wanted to relieve him. "He had had not a wink of sleep since the job started," the commander said. "His eyes were popping from his head. He had difficulty in speaking." But Lieut. Bhagat refused to be relieved, because "I have learned the Italians' system in laying mines and any relieving officer would have to learn it all over again...
There was much evidence that such a campaign was nearly ready. According to the British, General Weygand in Algeria had been forced to wink while German troops and supplies had passed through the colony on the way to the Libya front. In French Morocco, Nazis on the Armistice Commission had control of all gasoline supplies and airports, were building more landing fields and importing more Nazi technicians and "tourists" as fast as they could...
...reaching the Royal Palace General Antonescu began a series of showdown sessions with His Majesty which left both of them scarcely a wink of sleep for 48 hours. It is hard to pry an obstinate king in the prime of life off even a shaky throne, and Red Dog, between irate sessions with His Majesty, conferred with Rumanian leaders of all parties and groups -Peasant, Liberal and Iron Guard-as well as with the diplomatic representatives of Hitler and Mussolini. The German Minister conferred with the Russian Minister. Stress tugged at counter-stress, hypocrite smiled on hypocrite, the mob howled...
...Vice President Republicans needed: a man who favored Federal power, a Westerner, a farmer, a lifelong Republican, a seasoned politician. Quick as a wink, in one ballot, they named Charles Linza McNary of Oregon...