Word: nods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expression "Bon comme le pain." When I heard it, I thought of you. You're good, like bread; you're essential, you know. Mother. The world couldn't get on without people like you.'" Readers of Greenbanks will close the book with a grateful nod, admit that Charles was absolutely right...
...from poetry to the controversies of politics or the detail of university administration. She has never before thrown herself so rashly into the arms of her seducer. There would be cause for grief were it not for the knowledge that Mother Advocate can regain her independence by a nod, and that, being herself, she will want a change again soon...
...loaf like oafs, to nod like clods seemed the best idea to 40 students at Asbury Park High School, N. J. They were so lazy they would not even bother to be bad. Irked immeasurably by Asbury Park's 40 sluggards, Superintendent of Schools Amos E. Kraybill announced last week he would expel them. "They are wasting their time," he cried, "and their teachers' time and the taxpayers' money." Out they would go, he said, legally or illegally. The Board of Education backed Superintendent Kraybill. But soon Superintendent Kraybill changed his mind. He reprieved the 40 laggards...
...this time Bunnie was wondering what he could do to declare his love in a way that was not too percipitate. The two had begun at last to recognize each other in a distant sort of way, and once Bunnie began a nod to her. But she made no reply so he hastily changed it to an elaborate swallow. One February day Bunnie sat at his desk frankly ignoring his work, thinking of the girl and staring at a commercial calendar that hung before him. Suddenly a change came over him, the glaze left his eyes, and the thin arms...
...fourteenth is worked by the right foot, and it takes two men to operate the fifteenth, and largest. "The usual procedure," relates Mr. Swift, "is for the operator to start (jiggling) with his right hand, proceed down the scale with his left, bring his right foot into play, and nod his head for the two strong men to start ringing Bell No. 15." No tune results, but there is a terrific clangor...