Word: winked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invited me to see his room, where he offered me a beer, switched on his stereo, and continued to extoll the virtues of his community. Tony describes a lively social life of dancing, drinking, flirting, and serious romance. "Oh, yes," he laughs, with a sly wink, "there's a lot of romance between patients. When we're working or partying we forget the sickness. We have a good time. Most of the women here are older, but not all. We do whatever we want in our rooms, with complete privacy...
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...little birdie oh/ With his little toe, toe, toe!" At the Cambridge Latin School in Cambridge, Mass., Estlin tried to write a poem a day. Sample at age 16: "God, keep me trying to win the prize;/ Pamper me not,though I be crying./ Though snickering worlds wink owlish eyes, God,keep me trying." Harvard (A.B. 1915, M.A. 1916) all but undid this model boy. His discovery of the decadent poets of the 1890s led him to write lines like "(Oh God!) the wonder of you-" Courtesy of Ezra Pound, he also fell in with free verse and the imagist...
...improve was and still is reflected in his consistent attendance at each week's ten practice sessions. During his first Harvard reading period, he stayed up all night, completed a Hum 9a paper at 6:45 a.m., ran to morning workout, then studied all day and--without a wink of sleep--returned to the pool for more practice that evening. He paid the price for his enthusiasm with a case of the flu and some missed practices...
...cracks the code of Carson's durable popularity. What you see is what you get: a complete professional, as fast on the draw as any who share his spotlight; a neatly dressed Midwesterner whose underlying rectitude is beamed to millions of weary nine-to-fivers as a conspiratorial wink indicating that show people may be glamorous, but they are not to be taken seriously Tynan, the great appreciator of rare abilities, can explain the aggressive surrealism of Mel Brooks' ethnic humor, but it does not quite appear to be the Briton's cup of tea. There...