Word: winked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai and Ike do some speeches outlining their respective stands, on movie or TV film, for distribution throughcut the armed forces theaters? All I've seen so far of the '56 elections was a two-minute newscast of the Republicans at the Cow Palace, and not a wink of Ike anywhere...
...When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero's pal, Painter Salvador Dali (on hand at the Plaza opening with his antenna mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms), a fraudulent art theorist? With a big wink Escudero spoke seriously: "Since nobody knows what is true, Salvador's theory that the rhinoceros horn begins all and the cauliflower ends all (TIME, Dec. 26) may be the profoundest truth of the cosmos...
...suavely conventional Mr. Stevenson will have little trouble from the transparently opportunistic Mr. Lausche. The Democrats will be much better off running a paper doll that they can call their own than a Cellophane pol whose flirty-flirty eyes wink faithlessly at gods, men and political orthodoxy...
...conference-ending words ("Thank you, Mr. President"), and newsmen stampeded for the door. Against the risk that their White House correspondents in the front rows might lose precious seconds in the crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose to end the conference. Newsmen lucky enough to have staked out corridor phone booths leaped to call their offices. But some, like Harold Greer of the Toronto Star, ran four long blocks to the National Press Building to file their stories...
...vote of 79-1 (North Dakota's maverick Republican Bill Langer) and authorized $350,000 for the job. Said Johnson: "I believe that the members selected for the committee will do their jobs in their own way, according to their best judgment, and"-adding a broad verbal wink-"I am hopeful that the job they do will meet with the approval of all fairminded, patriotic, non-political Senators...