Word: winked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind these three, there are sophomores Art Noyes, Alby Wells, Wink Childs, Dick Allen, and Ralph Becket fighting for a chance at the third line...
Hastily, the show's organizers snatched off the drapery; quick as a wink, students from a nearby seminary for student priests rushed out and re-covered the offending desnudos. The organizers went back into action; for several minutes it was a knockdown affair between strippers and drapers. In time's nick, before the Minister of Education showed up, the strippers won, and the dignitaries started off to inspect the sculpture. No sooner had they passed than the students returned, so that on the walk back, all that the visitors could see were ghostly, sheeted shapes...
...open Cadillac, on the way into Washington, she helped Secretary Dulles into his overcoat. When someone shouted "Zito!" (Greek for long live), Frederika's pretty face lighted up with a smile. During the welcoming ceremonies in front of the District Building, the Queen gravely returned the impudent wink of a reporter. A few minutes later, under the White House porte-cochere, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower hurried down the steps to greet their old friends. "May you find as much pleasure in our house as we did in yours," said Ike, gripping King Paul's hand...
Actually, although many governments forbid such markets, most of them wink at them, even participate in them, for the simple reason that without them much international trade would die. In Paris, for example, right after the Bourse's legal trading closes at 1:15 p.m., the "illegal" currency market opens on the balcony-with a uniformed policeman keeping order. Such markets have been so common in Europe that U.S. tourists took them for granted, exchanged their money on streets with ease. But this summer tourists are finding a big change. Except in France, the money black markets have...
...horrors of a third world war." Replied the President: "You are leaving behind you a heritage of great achievement." ¶ Attended the yearly dinner of the White House Correspondents Association, grinned unfalteringly through a skit burlesquing his golf ("Be thankful he ain't a bowler"), a prolonged wink from Songstress Ethel Merman (I Get a Kick Out of You), a running patter of Comedian Bob Hope. Some Hope-isms: "It is a great pleasure to be here, entertaining our President. Of course, I had to sell all my Paramount stock before I could go on ... We were supposed...