Word: winking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also from Harvard are the 15 men on the Jaguars, which features varsity player Doug Manchester and Wink Childs, spark-plug of this year's freshman squad. Dunster House also sports a team, starring high-scoring freshman Bill Cleary and Intramural standout Henry Feldman at goal...
...Wallace's farm policy called for killing pigs and plowing under every third row of cotton. The Democrats later switched from a policy of scarcity to one of abundance-and Government buying of surpluses. Charles Brannan, Truman's Secretary of Agriculture, said: "I would never lose a wink of sleep if my policies led me to overproduction of some crops." Brannan had the happy experience of operating largely in the years of almost insatiable markets. World War II, European reconstruction and the Korean war brought abnormal demand. But in a few commodities, the philosophy of expanding production...
...said, with a wink, explaining why the crowd had booed his tactics in the fight. Old ladies had attacked him as he returned to his dressing room...
Probably the wink meant he was kidding; but it would be too bad if our nation's new financial boss writes off as unimportant "failures" such successes as Hemingway's Old Man, who worked his life out at a useful job, won the adulation of a boy and the affection of his own community. If Mr. Humphrey's own children catch from him as much of the real meaning of life as the old fisherman imparted, then he too is a successful...
...Suggested reading for Secretary Humphrey, with a wink: the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. No failures in that work. And you get so much book for your money...