Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's their specialty and let's see--Why," she said in amazement--"two of them majored in French and one in Spanish." This all sounded quite logical to the Grouser. "You might be interested to know," she continued, "how the girls are selected." On perceiving Grouser's eager nod, she declared that, "some of them are sent us from the general employment office, and some come directly to us. Lately, we have written several colleges describing the type of girl we want, and the position we had to offer. The girls must have had a good B average...
...Nod of Approval...
...Real Ride. The one thing everybody knows about Paul Revere is his ride. But Biographer Forbes can only nod affectionately towards Longfellow's ballad. The Paul Revere who roused the Middlesex village and farms was no hotheaded youth, but a stocky family man of 40. Neither did he gallop in wild anapest down the road to Lexington. The lanterns that were hung in Christ's Church steeple ("one if by land, two if by sea") were not hung for Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work...
...slippered, balding millions were not complaining; they just wanted to know. Few had any notion where they would wind up in total war. Washington had given the nod to local draft boards for induction on June 1 of some of the oldsters who registered Feb. 16. But that meant little or nothing. An estimated 84% of them have dependents...
...Charlie Sorensen started making Pratt & Whitney airplane engines before they even had an order. When the Government finally asked Ford to put up a Pratt & Whitney plant, he figured that OPM had set its sights too low, left one end of the building open for extensions. Without any nod from Washington, he turned an engineer loose on a V12 liquid-cooled engine of his own. He started putting up Willow Run on the sole basis of a relatively small order for sub-assemblies...