Word: winked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fishing nation. Some 155 fish-meal plants now operate along the coast. In the north-coast town of Chimbote, the population has exploded from 5,000 to 150,000 in the past 20 years. New taxis clog the city's streets, and neon signs wink brightly all night; hi-fi shops blare out cha chas; Indian mopsters sip beer and lethal-looking, yellow-green "Inca Kolas" and fill up vacant walls with "Vivan los Beatles...
...glow of spotlights, giving them the look of a ruddy tan. And both seemed extraordinarily happy. Johnson appeared to recognize at least one individual in each of the 50 states' flotillas. Now he clapped heartily, now he smiled a big Texas grin, now he shot an affectionate wink, now he made the O.K. sign with his thumb and forefinger, now his characteristic palm-down bye-bye wave...
...many of whom can't rightly remember the days when he was Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President, a job he liked to refer to as "a spare tire on the automobile of government." Finally someone wondered how it felt to be so old. Said Garner, with a wink: "I am the youngest man in town...
PEPSI-COLA'S UNICEF exhibition warms the heart of every little girl at the fair with a boat ride through a fantasy of Disney dolls. Hundreds and hundreds of them, dressed in saris and kilts, Lederhosen and grass skirts, they wink and blink, nod and grimace, dance and sing to a joyful hymn in praise of world understanding called It's a Small World...
...Excuse my client," pleaded his lawyer. "He is blinded by the thought of the freedom he wants so desperately." So the court blinked at Rhadames' clinker, set bail at only 10 million francs ($2,000,000), which his mother, sister and brother put up in a wink...