Word: winked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Scali says that the presence of police details does not dissuade on-duty officers from visiting the Grille and that the details are not informed when a sting is planned. But the fact remains that most police officers paid by the establishment look the other way while doormen wink at scores of fakes...
...progressivism, Harvard has lost the characteristic alumni-student back-scratching that made this place so special from the first. Sure, students will always be able to expect a solid education and an impressive diploma from Harvard. But 50, 40, even 30 years ago, they could also expect a wink and a nudge when it came to employment as well...
There was always a bit of a nod and wink in France's punishment of its most famous contemporary saboteur. After all, while sheep farmer Jose Bove's ransacking of a McDonald's outlet in the Montpellier town of Millau two years ago was simple hooliganism in the eyes of the law, it was nonetheless overwhelmingly popular in a nation that mans the barricades at the first sign of U.S. cultural encroachment. Even Prime Minister Lionel Jospin termed Bove's Quixotic crusade "just...
...build political capital for the fights that lie ahead. By picking both insiders and outsiders, pragmatists and purists, Bush was not only paying off past favors to constituencies but also, he hopes, building goodwill for the future. If he needs to ignore Christian Conservatives when it comes time to wink at China's persecution of Christians, his selection of archconservative former Senator John Ashcroft for Attorney General will help the medicine go down. Business developers got Gale Norton, the Interior nominee known for her eagerness to open wilderness areas to industry. Corporate America, meet Mr. Paul O'Neill, lately...
...corroded values and our own endorsement of the political wheeling and dealing that goes on at this school. We adhere to our principles so long as they don't conflict with our avaricious aspirations, and we admire our leaders so long as we know we'll eventually have a wink and a nod coming back at us from their direction...