Word: nodded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Land of Nod...
...With scarcely so much as a nod to doctors-for-Nixon, the influential Christian Science Monitor-which supported Ike in 1952 and neither candidate in 1956 -endorsed Richard Nixon as the man more likely to give the U.S. "positive, progressive and skilled leadership...
...liked to explain it: "Don't write anything you can phone, don't phone anything you can talk face to face, don't talk anything you can smile, don't smile anything you can wink, and don't wink anything you can nod." Earl wiped up a $45 million budget surplus, then went on a piratical tax spree. True to Huey's method of giving the people what they wanted while soaking them for it. he expanded welfare programs and at the same time allowed the patronage-hungry legislature to kill off the civil...
...Johnson ticket a gingerly endorsement, but made it clear that he will have no truck with the Democratic platform, especially its hateful civil rights plank. In Tallahassee, Farris Bryant, the Democratic candidate for Governor (and, in effect, Governor-elect) reached the same split decision, gave Jack Kennedy a grudging nod while deploring the "repugnant" civil rights program. In Washington, the grey eminence of diehard Dixiecracy. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. ¶During the farewells on his departure from the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge received...
...That's easy to say if you are not involved," said Sahl, fingering the trigger. "But if you are in the Administration, you have a lot of problems of policy, like whether or not to use an overlapping grip." Wild laughter always greeted that one, but with a nod and a nervous chuckle, and a characteristic "It s true, it's true," he would slide off into a skein of digressions, usually with an aside for interested conservatives, telling them that they could get the Chicago Tribune anywhere in the U.S., "flown in, packed in ice." Following Stevenson...