Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could look at Negroes with an "entirely fresh mind." Perhaps not since de Tocqueville and Bryce has the U.S. had such an analytical probing by a sharp-eyed foreigner. Sifting a mountain of documentation through a trained academic mind, Dr. Myrdal drew conclusions that will make U.S. citizens either nod or squirm...
...gives him the nod, John L. Lewis will have won, through shrewd strategy and sheer mulishness, a resounding victory. If WLB turns him down, John Lewis will be able to point virtuously to his three heaving attempts at a settlement. And his big, meaty finger is still aimed ominously at a deadline: Oct. 31. After Oct. 31, if there is no approved miner-operator contract under which John Lewis' miners can work, the U.S. can do without coal...
Proves in One Touch of Venus that de Mille can nod as well as Homah...
...never should their ears be reddened with even laundered versions of such bawdy ballads as Dirty Gertie or Mademoiselle from Armentieres. Such, apparently, is the chaste opinion of the U.S. Post Office, which has closed the mails to Give Out!, a book of military ditties compiled with an approving nod from the armed services...
...most of the week, the Varsity backfield includes Swede Anderson of last year's eleven at blocking back; Ray Eder, who starred in last year's spring practice, at wing; Paul Garrity, former Jayvee fullback, at tailback now; and Paul Perkins, Varsity sub in '42, who has the nod over Minnesota Joe Lauterback at the 3 spot...