Word: winked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fable short. What does it all mean? A satire on imperialism, perhaps, with Ti-Coyo symbolizing the native opportunist? Clement Richer, a nonpolitical fellow who describes himself as a misanthrope, is wise enough not to say; all that can be seen is his literary eye closing in a wink...
...expected to sit in at meetings lasting from three to ten hours. Soon, to keep going, he was taking five injections of glucose a month. Said Yuan to a Communist reporter: "From last December until May, I slept only three hours a day, sometimes five hours, sometimes not a wink except a nap over the desk...
Dorgan shrugged. "You know the old saying, a wink is as good as a bow to a blind horse." The representative, who was half-blind, sat back...
Another wrote: "As a Harvard graduate, I am profoundly concerned about the irresponsible and headline seeking utterances of such professors as Shapely and Mother. Any such men bring justified criticism upon the University by their actions and words, rather than by their thinking. Will the authorities tolerate and wink at everything in the name of academic freedom and freedom of speech?" Along somewhat the same line of thought, a lawmaker wrote that he had seen many friends absorb extreme leftist sympathies at Harvard. This, he continued, "must be mainly due to the leftist sympathies of certain instructors...
When manufacturers, who are required to police their own outlets, continued to wink at such price cuts, Macy's went to war. Gimbels, Wanamaker's and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus had little choice but to cut also...