Word: winked
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...like anything but confident: his eyes were red-rimmed, his face was ashen. Remembering that horrible week at the Masters tournament last April when he wound up tied with Palmer, then blew a big lead in the next day's 18-hole playoff, Player had not slept a wink. "I kept remembering that Masters playoff, and I began to worry," he said. "I don't want to be known as a choker." For 18 holes, he played a grim, conservative game, got only two birdies, only two bogeys, for a par 70. Par was just good enough...
...population explosion in dolls this year is the best argument yet for birth control at the toy bench. They kiss, they suck thumbs, they wet, and of course talk, laugh, cry, wink, blink and nod. One specimen has three shifting faces: one with measles, one in a convalescent state, and one in smiling health...
...providing free. With the club will go one present fixture: an enlarged Watteau etching, from which an 18th century siren peeks suggestively out at the bar as she heads for the shrubbery with her lover. Muses Weigt: "She is the symbol of the club. You see how her wink follows you all around the room? She already has everything-yet she still wants something more...
...competitors were left in the race. The venerable international firm of Rosenberg & Stiebel was representing the Cleveland Museum of Art; James Rorimer was bidding for the Met. The gentleman from Rosenberg & Stiebel did his bidding with a gesture of the hand, Rorimer with cocked thumb reinforced with a wink. After an eternal four minutes, Rorimer winked for the last time. The Rembrandt was his for $2,300,000, the highest known price ever paid for a painting anywhere...
...wink and a nod to the Lehman Zoo architect: Edward Coe Embury...