Word: winked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the children are abed, the fair takes on a new life. Very good children should, in fact, be allowed to see the twilight transformation as 10 million light bulbs wink alive. The computerized lighting system, designed by Richard Peters, provides soft, ever changing illumination. Focal, ambient and sparkling lamps caress the roofs and walkways and bounce stars onto the river and lagoons. The lighting patterns change six times nightly and are different each night. Each evening too a different fireworks display explodes over...
...press by reaffirming the right of appellate judges to conduct their own reviews in such cases. Said Washington Libel Lawyer Bruce Sanford: "This sends a message to libel plaintiffs that they can't go out and inflame the antinews bias of jurors and expect the appeals courts to wink." According to the Libel Defense Resource Center, journalists who are sued for libel lose 83% of jury trials, but win at the appeals level in 70% of the cases...
...late Soviet leader: "Brezhnev was pretty much of a lady's man . . . When we went down the line and there were a lot of-several-pretty girls . . . there with flowers and so forth welcoming us-this is in Russia-and he turned to me with a little wink, and he said, 'Would you want to take one of these with...
...EVER HEAR the story about how Louis Armstrong got discovered in Chicago?" jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie asks with a knowing wink. "King Oliver heard Louis as he passed by in the street. When I started playing trumpet I would practice with my horn pointed out the window in the hope that Louis might drive by." Lester smiled like and old pro as he works up for his punch line: "Louis never heard me, but the neighbors sure...
...motto, "Hoya Saxa." The people in Henle 20 with the Harvard student didn't shriek that, or much of anything, until the second half of Saturday's game. What did it was an inbound pass by Gene Smith, accompanied by a grim and an unmistaka- ble nationally televised wink right into the cumeras...