Word: winking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commission will continue to wink at what it calls "traditionally accepted puffery"-for example, a manufacturer claiming that its product "tastes great!" But any advertiser who makes factually inaccurate or misleading claims will risk an FTC complaint order as well as bad publicity. The commission will make its findings public, and admen foresee many legal battles over FTC interpretations of truth and deception...
...Ameche wink, and smirk, "howdy like to take me home with...
...three novellas comprising The Watcher, all of which predate Cosmicomics, Peter Pan is grounded. This earlier Calvino may not have been quite ready for a tragic mask, but his wink is closer to a tic and his grin is spastic. The title story unwinds like an old Vittorio De Sica film in slow motion. A member of the Communist Party, Amerigo Ormea is assigned to be an election watcher at the Cottolengo Hospital for Incurables in Turin. As Amerigo officiously keeps the morons and vegetable cases from being recorded as Christian Democrat votes, Calvino demonstrates ironically that the Catholic Church...
...council," claims that his commanders draw only $7 a month, plus 25? in "pocket money." Though the Thais have nominally friendly relations with the Ne Win government, Bangkok is fretful over signs of a Chinese-Burmese rapprochement, and many suspect that sympathetic Thai ministers simply wink at U Nu's activities...
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