Word: winks
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...said, with a wink, explaining why the crowd had booed his tactics in the fight. Old ladies had attacked him as he returned to his dressing room...
...revealing, sometimes misleading. I hope the latter is true of a comment by our new Secretary of the Treasury, quoted in your fine article [Jan. 26] on him. You report: "When he caught Mrs. Humphrey reading Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, he asked, with a wink, 'Why would anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure and never amounted to anything...
Probably the wink meant he was kidding; but it would be too bad if our nation's new financial boss writes off as unimportant "failures" such successes as Hemingway's Old Man, who worked his life out at a useful job, won the adulation of a boy and the affection of his own community. If Mr. Humphrey's own children catch from him as much of the real meaning of life as the old fisherman imparted, then he too is a successful...
...Suggested reading for Secretary Humphrey, with a wink: the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. No failures in that work. And you get so much book for your money...
...freshmen without defensemen Marie Celi and Pete Summers, took two periods to shake off exam legs, them scored six times in the final period. Only Cleary racked up more than one goal. Joe Chehore, Carl Purnell, Art French, Clark Potter, Dick Allen, and wink Childs each had one score...