Word: winked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorts of ventures (hotels, race tracks, theaters, etc.) in the Pacific Northwest. Like her father, Jeanette seems to have a clear knack for getting whatever she goes after. Rockefeller's friends immediately coined a private joke about the affair. "This time," they told each other with a wink, "he's going to marry for money...
...found the matter pressing enough to open its scientific session with a serious discussion of sleep and the lack of it. Physicians from far-flung Commonwealth countries as well as those from Britain proper squirmed in comfortless, sleep-discouraging seats in garish Kelvin Hall and listened with never a wink or a nod to a panel of experts...
Insomniac patients, the doctors agreed, cannot be talked or cajoled out of their sleeplessness, but require sympathetic treatment. "What do you do about the patient who complains, 'I haven't slept a wink,' when you know he has slept for hours?" Sir Geoffrey Jefferson was asked...
...Wink & Guffaw. Since the court ruling would cause a fantastic increase in tax valuations, the legislature changed the law to call for assessment at 50% of actual value. Then the state board of equalization, Governor Robert Crosby, chairman, set out to equalize the assessments from county to county. This meant that almost every real-estate owner in Nebraska was hit with an increase in taxes. In Crosby's home town, North Platte, town-lot tax valuations more than tripled. Although the State Supreme Court had forced the action, most of the public ire was directed at one man: Governor...
...taverns and coffee shops all over Spain's capital last week, once respectable customers were sidling up to waiters and barkeeps to whisper the cryptic words: "Any orchard chops?" Often as not, the bartender would reply 'with a knowing wink and lead the customer around to a hidden door in the back of the shop. There, while both of them kept a nervous ear cupped for the sudden cry of "Poll!" (police) from a boy on watch, the avid customer would receive his prize - a crispy, crunchy sparrow fried whole in deep olive oil. In one gleeful gulp...