Word: winking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steelworkers hit the streets. Another 500,000 would be called out of steel-fabricating plants the minute Philip Murray thought the right strategic moment had come. In a slower, creeping fashion-if the shutdown lengthened-unemployment would spread to railroads, auto plants, thousands of steel-dependent factories. In the wink of an eye last week, the nation's economic backbone was paralyzed by the first industry-wide steel strike since the walkout...
...Hilda Simms, a talented actress with a superbly natural stage presence. The movie, not illogically, was based on the first script, with Yordan as producer. But Anna's earthy role was turned over to Paulette Goddard, a skin-deep beauty whose chief acting prop is a flirtatious wink...
...other hand, Casey Stengel, 57, for years baseball's No. 1 buffoon, had stopped clowning. He had not been thrown out of a game all season. When his star, Joe DiMaggio, was counted out with a sore heel before the season opened, Casey camouflaged his fears. A knowing wink was all anybody got out of him though Casey knew least of anybody what he was winking about...
...from the ramshackle, nine-story loft building at 35 East Twelfth Street, not far from Manhattan's Union Square. To its top-floor offices came the Communist International "Reps," the shadowy men with the changeable names like P. Green, G. Williams, A. Ewert, H. Berger, which in a wink of the eye might become Drabkin, B. Mikhailov, Braun or Gerhart Eisler. These were Moscow's agents. From the ninth floor the Word which they brought from Moscow was passed along to the faithful, to the party hacks on the Daily Worker and the Yiddish-language Freiheit...
...which demonstrated his infinite capacity for the revolving, roller-bearing, dipsy-doodle phrase. He "took up the burden" . . . "entered upon consecrated service" and promised to "eliminate roaming livestock from the roads." He promised that one & all could come to his office and see him, though, he added with a wink, "... it will help a whole lot if you voted right...