Word: winking
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...like justice, is blind . . . but, the lady has been known to wink...
With Conway came others involuntarily--a palcontologist, a consumptive female, a rough public utilities swindler, and Conway's weak worldly brother. All except the last are won over to the Utopia. In the wink of an eye the blonde seems to lose her consumption and her hard shell; similarly, the other two relax into a happy existence. Conway himself sees a dream come true...
...citizens in Russia would be preserved (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Comrade Litvinoff, having secured Soviet recognition, went home to Moscow via Rome. When he was asked by the Eternal City's Catholic journalists whether the church clause was going to hold water he replied with his characteristic wink & shrug. Last week in Moscow, sudden and final violation of what President Roosevelt had thought would be an effective promise, occurred simultaneously with honors for Comrade Litvinoff...
...double-deck bed, burned with a cigarette, given 18 lashes with a whip, hospitalized. The outraged medical officer demands that Thornton be expelled, threatens to resign and expose the school if he is not. In the course of his tirade it appears that because the school heads wink at the manly dissipations of a soldier, six of the boys have contracted syphilis. The commandant retorts that if the medical officer resigns and talks he will be a pariah unable to earn a living for his family. At the following commencement it falls to the medical officer to deliver the address...
...minutes later, a Detroit second-stringer named Modere Bruneteau took a pass from his teammate Hector Kilrea, made one more perfunctory shot at Maroon Goalie Lorne Chabot, who had already stopped 66. The red bulb that flashes when a goal is scored gave a sudden and amazing wink. Sleepy watchers and exhausted players rubbed their eyes to make sure that they were not, dreaming. They were not. The longest National League hockey game ever played-2 hr., 56½ min. of actual play-was over, 1-to-0 for the Red Wings...