Word: winked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's second largest life insurance company last week decided to wink at its own actuarial tables. To succeed retiring Carrol M. Shanks, 62, as president, the Prudential Insurance Co. (outranked only by Metropolitan Life) picked Executive Vice President Louis R. Menagh Jr., 68, a 46-year Prudential veteran who is already three years past the company's recommended retirement age. Menagh (rhymes with Lena) is a spry and active executive who attributes his good health to the fact that his mother lived to be 92, his father 89 (after retiring at 80-for one week). His selection...
...power is blunted-though commerce is served-by a glossy production (Pandro S. Berman), slick direction (Daniel Mann), solid but stolid performances, and a script (Charles Schnee and John Michael Hayes) that reads as though it had been copied off a washroom wall. Heroine to hero, with a broad wink, as she glides seductively down the hatch of his sailboat: "You can-uh-drop anchor any time." Motel proprietor to hero, who betrays a certain anxiety to get to bed with heroine: "Yeah, yeah. Man's gotta get his rest-an' he's gotta get it regular...
...year very few spit on them (an old trick that prevents the broadsides from being picked up and used again). "That's a good sign," says Bagwell. "Two years ago they dropped our pamphlets like snow." It is not uncommon for a worker to sidle up with a wink, fold back his lapel and expose a concealed Bagwell button. Even Democratic leaders figure that one-third of Wayne County's workers will vote for Bagwell...
...sessions, collared recalcitrant lawmakers, threatened, cajoled. His technique, as he liked to explain it: "Don't write anything you can phone, don't phone anything you can talk face to face, don't talk anything you can smile, don't smile anything you can wink, and don't wink anything you can nod." Earl wiped up a $45 million budget surplus, then went on a piratical tax spree. True to Huey's method of giving the people what they wanted while soaking them for it. he expanded welfare programs and at the same time...
...slowly in a way that no star does. Why does it perform in this odd fashion? Last week the explanation came from Dr. Leonard Jaffe of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Echo's quick twinkling, said Jaffe, is caused by the same atmospheric irregularities that make stars wink. Some of its slower dimming may be due to thin patches of clouds, invisible at night-but most of it is Echo's own doing...