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Word: winked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are two types of plays in Tiddlywinks. One is potting--what laymen usually consider the object of the game--to get the winks in the cup at the center of the playing field. But tactics depend on squopping--immobilizing other players' winks by landing on them. Points are tallied at the end to determine the winner: one point for every unsquopped wink and three for each potted...

Author: By Jeffrey E. Seifert, | Title: Pumping Iron with World-Class Jocks | 10/31/1981 | See Source »

...turn up to give a Commencement speech, Lord appeared on Channel 5 to comment on negotiations between Massachusetts Hall and the White House and she was clearly rooting for the big event to come off. "As usual, I would have loved all the press," she says, adding with a wink, "but I don't think my views were widely shared. Oh well."CrimsonNevin I. ShalitDEANE LORD...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Deane Of Image and Reality | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Houdini's identity-switching act on the street, points out that some people rank New York's Washington Square Park ahead of Cambridge. "No way. They don't know what they're talking about, and you can tell because they all want to come here," he explains with a wink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Can Put Me Out On the Street | 8/14/1981 | See Source »

...They all work in gyms all day, the best own gyms. Bob quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger as if he were the chairman of bodybuilding--"Arnold says people who talk about bodybuilders being sissies are just jealous," "According to Arnold, there's no feeling as good in the entire world (wink)." And then he's back to work, because the competition is only a month away, and there's the pecs to work on, and the traps, and the thighs and the triceps. Oh, there's so much left to be done, and, as Bob points out, "The contests...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...amazed what people will do to get near this car," says Gadlock. "They'll offer you money and booze, they'll offer to come to your room." That's with a wink. "Hell," he says, "if they want to come to my room, that's fine. But I don't want it to have anything to do with the car." Gadlock, who tells everything under twenty-four and female that they're looking "awful pretty today," is adamant about that. There's a weird ethic going on here with this car. "Hell, now, I wouldn't sleep with Raquel Welch...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

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