Word: winking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Waters Chad-Affonso Wathington Laura M. Weinrib Talya M. Weisbard Taharee A. Webb Nicholas P. Weiss Eric D. Werker Peter J. Wertheim Lauren A. Wetzler Elizabeth E. White Jared S. White Tobie E. Whitman Lauren A. Wiebe David A. Williams James S. F. Wilson Thomas P. Windom Kathryn J. Wink Sarah H. Winkeller Jonathan C. Wintrode Thomas J. Withrow David A. Witken Emily B. Wong Colin H. Wood Michele Woodbury Janson Wu Timothy F. Wyant Kelly M. Yamanouchi James L. Young Lauren M. Young Robert J. Yumol Nora H. Zimmett Beth A. Zotter
...could be attributed to the decidedly unattractive set. There was no chance for stage-rushing, since the Boston P.D. fences kept Shindell far from the calm crowd. Shindell creates passion in more intimate venues, where the audience can see the sweat on his brow and get closer to his wink and smile...
Sentimentally, of course, Western leaders would like nothing more than to act decisively to end the pogrom in East Timor ? but sentiment seldom trumps geopolitics in the affairs of state, and geopolitics is a cynical business. Back in December 1975, the U.S. gave Indonesia a nod and a wink to proceed with its invasion of the tiny country, whose Portuguese colonial administration had collapsed. In fact, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in Jakarta the day before Indonesian troops went in. With South Vietnam having collapsed only eight months earlier, Washington wasn't about...
...Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975 ? with a nod and a wink from Washington, which saw Jakarta as a key anticommunist ally in the region ? and killed as much as one third of its population in 24 years of trying to subdue East Timor. International pressure forced Jakarta to agree to the independence referendum, but the government fears that losing East Timor would simply spur secessionist movements inside Indonesia ? which, after all, is an archipelago of diverse ethnic, religious and linguistic identities united only by the fact that they were once all colonized by the Dutch. With anti...
...highest-ranking elected official and the repository of its presidential urges, didn't show. Bad weather and a bad back kept him in Minnesota. When they got him on speakerphone, instead of taking on Perot, Ventura promised not to run for President; his grab for power was more a wink and a nudge. He pitched Jack Gargan, a retired financial consultant, as party chairman, but then swaddled the endorsement in protestations that he wasn't telling the fiercely independent delegates how to vote. The room, which had sparked with applause at other points in the speech, went silent as Gargan...