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Word: winked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the problem comes from misaddressed letters. One, which was sent to the "Harvard University Tiddley Wink Team, c/o Nathan M. Pusey," was forwarded to the Harvard Athletic Association before it finally reached the stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winkers Plead For Secretary | 1/28/1963 | See Source »

...designed the machine which puts it in." We expressed our admiration for such ingenuity and were about to comment on the meticulous selection of products when a strange sound caught our ears. We asked what it was. "I thought you'd ask about that," replied Mr. Whiteside with a wink. "It's our apple bruiser--only one like it in the East...

Author: By Andrew T. Wett., | Title: Food for Thought | 1/14/1963 | See Source »

Whiteside featured the Harvard attack with two Carnovskis. (For the uninitiated, a Carnovskis, named for the man who first did it, is a hole in one, in which the wink is squidged directly into the cup from a distance of two feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUTS Humbles Inept Yale Daily | 11/26/1962 | See Source »

...humor was less in the tradition of the Miller's Tale than of the music hall, the kind that called for an elbow in the ribs and a broad wink. He: "Do you like Kipling?" She: "I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled." The double-entendre gave McGill his most successful card, good for a staggering 6,000,000 copies, but now out of print. A shriveled shrimp of a man with a huge mustache, naked but for a small towel, stands before a doctor, who tells him: "Sorry, but we will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Sancho Panza View | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...Harvard winkers outsquidged and outsquopped their opponents, taking first place in each of the six matches; but the M H U T S were termed a "powerful" squad by their Harvard hosts after one Holyoke player broke a squidge by pressing too hard against a wink on her opening shot. It was the first time that a squidge had been broken during match competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiddlywink Team Downs Holyoke | 10/22/1962 | See Source »

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