Word: winked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of effective laws and the priority of other cases caused the long delay in following through on Mulcahy's information. But some Justice officials suggest that CIA agents had impeded faster action. One prosecutor told TIME, "When you deal with the CIA everything is done with a wink and a nod. And there was a lot of winking and nodding going...
Conservative intellectuals are aficionados of the wink, full of rollicking good fun, by nature a sly sort. Hence, the masthead of The American Spectator contains the following witticisms: it lists a "chief saloon correspondent," and makes the contention that "Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short" has been reatained as the periodical's legal counsel. And that...
...physical player, crashing the boards and picking up more than his share of points on offensive rebounds. With Joe Carrabino, they formed the best rookie combination in the Ivy League, perhaps in all of the east. His pivot is a thing of beauty. Speaking of Carrabino, rumor has it (wink, wink) that the New England basketball coaches voted him the best rookie in Division...
...laugh at it. I'm a healthy influence." And, as usual, she was right. Sex goddesses have come and gone and will remain so long as people go to the movies. But only Mae West was able to make a whole career out of the leer and the wink. Her voluptuous figure was as familiar as the Statue of Liberty's. When she died last week at the age of 87, from complications that developed after she suffered a stroke several months ago, America lost a long-enduring symbol of an age when s-e-x was something...
...mythology that states run by Communist parties are actually operated for the benefit of the workers. Party officials will sometimes try to keep a straight face when explaining why workers are so much better off in socialist societies, but they do not really believe it themselves. After a sympathetic wink or a good-natured 'Come on, now,' they will let you understand that they are simply passing on the obligatory line." The solemn Communist theology about workers controlling the means of production is contemptuously dismissed for what it is: a rationale for political dictatorship...