Word: winks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the Fish. Grinning his winningest, winking his twinklingest, Rockefeller took it all in with obvious satisfaction. "Wonderful!" he exclaimed. "Terrific!" Then down to business, still smiling: "My position has not changed. We want to win. The party needs unity. I'm exactly where I was before. I'm not making any move." Wink. "You're winking at me, Governor," said a reporter. "I'm not winking at anybody," said the Governor...
...With a Wink. Among soft-drink companies, Canada Dry has been a notable laggard in adopting such strategy. While the industry more than doubled its sales volume in a decade, in great part by introducing new beverages-notably low-calorie drinks-which persuade new groups of customers to imbibe, Canada Dry added only one new product: Wink. Before Mahoney took charge 15 months ago, profits had skidded from $5,400,000 in fiscal...
...eyes, flaring nostrils and smoldering visage that prompted one of his many female admirers to compare him to "an untamed animal-sensual and earthy." Then Don Quixote: a reflection of his penchant for tilting in public at sacred cultural institutions. Then Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks: the insouciant wink-and-nudge of a joker who likes to imitate other people over the telephone, and who once threw an entire hotel into chaos during a concert tour by sneaking around the corridors early in the morning and changing all the breakfast orders...
...dazzling exaggerations of turn-of-the-century elegance, topped off with such hats as dreams are made of, she struts and swaggers new pizazz into the undistinguished material that Carol Channing, Betty Grable, Martha Raye and Ginger Rogers have done so well by. The Bailey way with a wink or a wiggle or a throwaway line is pure pleasure, and the rich, round raunchy Bailey voice can wrap up and deliver anything singable...
...scrubby wilds near Fort Lauderdale, he wanders untrammeled through woods and dunes, killing king snakes, munching Powerhouse candy bars. He regards mysteries of life with the eerie moral neutrality of boyhood. "Suddenly two of the birds rush at each other in the air. Quick as a wink, one of them is gone. Swallowed. A single yellow feather drifts down to settle on the moss. I laugh, delighted by the purity of it." In a familiar childhood rite, he discovers the intricate magic of a yo-yo that he has bought from two Oriental itinerant salesmen, and learns the various movements...