Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...phone, and yelled hello. After establishing that it was truly I, Hughes wanted to know if I didn't feel better rested than I had at 11. Then he suggested that I should drive to the intersection of Olympic and Sepulveda boulevards, park at the southwest corner, blink my lights twice, and wait for a two-tone, 1954 Mercury sedan to come alongside. Then?−but he had rung...
...kaleidoscopic Christmas displays began to blink on at stores along the main streets of the nation's cities last week, the mood of the merchants was anything but festive. Downtown retailers are hoping for a holiday buying spree to offset a year of laggard sales and inflation-riddled earnings. Economists are hoping for consumer spending to be a strong force in revitalizing the economy. The prospects for the near future are not promising...
...English country house, the home of Andrew Wyke (Anthony Quayle), a successful mystery writer. Into the room comes Milo Tindle (Keith Baxter), a travel agent. Tindle has been having a surreptitious affair with Wyke's wife. After a swift courtesy drink has been poured, Wyke makes Tindle blink by saying, "I understand you want to marry my wife." "Well, yes," gulps Tindle, "with your permission, of course," and a duel to the death begins between...
...pronunciation for Asian students at the University of New South Wales. Students are given isolated bits of Strine to cover all sorts of contingencies-envy is usually a case of sag rapes, and summer nights can be hell when the egg ni '-ner (air conditioner) is on the blink. Students often use a handbook on Strine that sets up little dramatic situations larded with lingo. What, for instance, should a wife do with a layabout husband? "Fitwer smeeide leave him. Seems he sawway sonn the grog. He'll nebby any good." Translation: "If it were...
...also told me about the lights that circled the Times Building, spelling out the news, and the giant ball that dropped on New Year's Eve. No sixteen-year-old worth this three-day trip across the country would ever give up a chance to see the news blink around the Times Building and be able to describe it to two unworldly friends before breakfast...