Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another awkwardly tries to hide the shiny black glove which covers his artificial right hand. A third, when rolling up his sleeve, is careful to keep four livid scars well covered. These and others in the group get an occasional nod from passing students, but they are different from the rest - proud, reserved, mature, cliquish, hard to know. Coeds and Navy V12 trainees fresh from high school mostly ignore them...
...shabby villa at Poona, doctors' bulletins went to Viceroy the Viscount Wavell in New Delhi. The Raj had never intended to let the old man die in custody, and thereby become a martyr in the eyes of India's restive masses. The Viceroy, with a nod from London at the proper medical moment, ordered Gandhi's release...
They continue to listen gravely while their minister tells them of the Negro's part in the making of America. The screen fills with historical paintings and with statuary, with bits from U.S. films which record the Negro's work in U.S. industry and warfare. They nod and smile when a mother interrupts to read a letter from her boy at camp. Then the screen fills with his Army story, from the day of his induction, and with images of Negroes at work in all branches of the service...
...President's, time & again he had marched up Capitol Hill carrying water on both shoulders to fight the President's battles. Time & again, trying to keep peace between President and Senate, he had carried individual Senators' complaints to the White House, seen the President nod and make notes, found later that the matter had ended then & there. But he had gone on gladly, because Party loyalty was ingrained in his soul, and because he believed sincerely in Franklin Roosevelt as a great leader...
...report is such as to encourage Congress in opposing the usual Administration practice of asking blank-check powers and appropriations for vaguely denned agencies. The economic destiny of the U.S. is envisioned as being not in the hands of the President (who released the report with a perfunctory nod), but in a Triple Entente: President, Congress, People...