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Word: winks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Another wrote: "As a Harvard graduate, I am profoundly concerned about the irresponsible and headline seeking utterances of such professors as Shapely and Mother. Any such men bring justified criticism upon the University by their actions and words, rather than by their thinking. Will the authorities tolerate and wink at everything in the name of academic freedom and freedom of speech?" Along somewhat the same line of thought, a lawmaker wrote that he had seen many friends absorb extreme leftist sympathies at Harvard. This, he continued, "must be mainly due to the leftist sympathies of certain instructors...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Poll Shows General Court's Views on Harvard | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

When manufacturers, who are required to police their own outlets, continued to wink at such price cuts, Macy's went to war. Gimbels, Wanamaker's and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus had little choice but to cut also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Militant Macy's | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...took the jury only 70 minutes to decide. As the twelve middle-aged jurors filed back to the jury box, one of them caught Mrs. Sander's anxious eye, grinned broadly and tipped her a reassuring wink. Then Foreman Louis C. Cutter rose to pronounce the verdict: "Not guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE: Not Guilty | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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