Word: winks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caesar landed where Deal now drowses and William the Conqueror made good his bid at Hastings. just beyond the Sussex line. Much later the furtive wink of smugglers' lamps enlivened coastal life, put money in the pockets of those who cared to lend a hand to circumvent the King...
...half realistic. The superstitious half became concerned with ethical values, the realistic half with how to get ahead. Says Baldwin: ". . . Sound common sense taught him that in a practical world, while there might be some good, there must also be considerable evil and brutality; therefore God must agree to wink at a reasonable modicum of wickedness. Wars and a minimum of chicanery must be permitted, though the party of the second part agreed to find good moral reasons for them. . . . So Christianity has been an embalming fluid that has preserved the peasant virtues of England down to this generation...
...Dell, founded the leftist and pacifist Masses. When the U.S. got into World War I, his most famous cartoon, the savage Having Their Fling, helped put Art and colleagues on trial for sedition, a capital crime. For seven days & nights during that trial, Max Eastman could not sleep a wink...
...engine house like the Cowardly Lion. Before long I found I was not the only one feeling that way. Leathery men beside me clenched their guns with sweaty hands, gritted their teeth and stared with frantic concentration at the shoulders of the men ahead. I tried a feeble wink at one of them. He winked back; then, crouching lower until he was almost in the attitude in which he was born, he prayed unashamedly...
...Michigan had over a dozen former Wisconsin lettermen on its squad and a dream backfield of potential all-Americas: Wisconsin's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch and Jack Wink, Minnesota's star fullback Bill Daley, Michigan's own Paul White...