Word: winked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was wrong with the Italians? "They wave their 'ands when they talk," groused one Englishman. "They wink at the women and shampoo their 'air." Worst of all, said a squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping...
...Stagg why he had refused. Stagg pointed to an obscure footnote in the rule book: "The committee deprecates the use of a substitute to convey information." Alonzo Jr. had lost his chance to become a football immortal (he never even won his letter) because Old Man Stagg refused to wink at the rule book...
...that Berlin was the only guest not present, and exchanged meaningful glances. Later that morning, when he arrived at the breakfast table, they looked at him inquiringly. "Yes, the same old story," Berlin said with a mournful nod. "Took three Nembutals last night and didn't catch a wink...
...protect the honor of the fire department, no inspector was ever allowed to certify an unsafe burner or to wink at a leaky tank; contractors were forced to comply with the law before a bribe was accepted. If a contractor refused to pay, nobody threatened him; the collector simply waited for cold weather to jar him into paying...
...first, John Divine relaxes. During a session of shuffleboard in a heavy sea, Divine's eye roves toward the scuppers and the slit of open space under the lifeboats. In that instant, he sees "a billowing of pink goods" slither over the side, and for "half an awful wink that pinkness seemed ... to have folds like legs and corners like tiny clutching hands...