Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court (5 to 4) told C.I.O.'s Roland Jay Thomas he did not have to get an organizer's card from the State of Texas before soliciting union memberships (TIME, Oct. 4, 1943). The Texas registration law, said the court in giving labor the nod, was unconstitutional because it infringed on the rights of free speech and free assembly...
...really rather stupid, but he had "the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet." In addition, unlike many of his successors, he refused to fall into "the error of making a religion of the esthetic." Tennyson's message, concludes Poet Auden, in words that would make Victorian moralists nod approvingly, is not art for art's sake but recognition of the fact that "an art which is beyond good and evil is a game of secondary importance...
Broke and dispirited, Harry Truman turned to politics. With the backing of American Legionnaires, who had made his haberdashery their hangout, he won the nod of Boss Pendergast for county judge. Faithful, efficient, unimaginative, never one to make trouble, he stayed in this administrative post for ten years...
...time in history that anyone as young as Jill Poole had even attempted a Stedman Caters or a Plain Bob Royal, let alone anything so ambitious and exhausting as a whole Cambridge Surprise Maximus. As Jill descended, fresh and glowing, from the belfry, the campanologists gave her a solemn nod of approval. She had qualified as an expert in Britain's ancient and honored profession of change ringing...
...also, by the revelation of a startling statistic which shows Germany's manpower potentially far exceeding any of its neighbors' by 1970, make them realize the importance of a prompt and effective answer. With a graphic explanation of Sumner Welles's partition plan, and a passing nod to the views of Walter Winchell, Lord Vansittart and John Foster Dulles, M.O.T.'s own implicit answer is: "Be stern...