Word: winked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revealing, sometimes misleading. I hope the latter is true of a comment by our new Secretary of the Treasury, quoted in your fine article [Jan. 26] on him. You report: "When he caught Mrs. Humphrey reading Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, he asked, with a wink, 'Why would anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure and never amounted to anything...
...freshmen without defensemen Marie Celi and Pete Summers, took two periods to shake off exam legs, them scored six times in the final period. Only Cleary racked up more than one goal. Joe Chehore, Carl Purnell, Art French, Clark Potter, Dick Allen, and wink Childs each had one score...
Humphrey has little time or concern for the arts, confines his nonbusiness reading mostly to the sprightly trade magazine of the thoroughbred-horse-breeding industry, The Blood Horse. (When he caught Mrs. Humphrey reading Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, he asked, with a wink: "Why would anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure and never amounted to anything?") He revels in the role of head-of-the-family, loves to gather his son and two daughters and his eight grandchildren at Kirtland Hills on Sundays...
...pretty girls stretch and wink at that handsome blond who sits two seats over in Nat. Sci. The normal boy juggles his position on each ride so he can find out what each pretty girl is doing that night...
...same time, Dick Clasby and Captain Wink Burtnett of B.C. tied for second place behind Paul Whelan of B.U. for the Star of the Week title. Whelan received 13 votes, while Clasby and Burtnett each received...