Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bertrand Russell is here. With a tacit nod of satisfaction from the Corporation and perhaps a few grimaces from Boston's Thomas Dorgan to greet him, he arrived yesterday. The presence of this eccentric but learned Britisher marks a timely victory for the freedoms which are so much endangered today...
...purely conversational farmer. I never have done a stroke of work on a Rush County farm in my life and I hope I never have to. Louis Berkemier and Joe Kramer and the other fellows do the work. I merely do the talking"). They could nod, in sober understanding, when he said that he had spent 37 of his 48 years in their Midwest, and that now: "Bombs are raining down on England. . . . People who live and think as we have lived and thought are being destroyed. . . . There comes to me an overwhelming sense of humility when I think that...
...Traveler, founded in 1825, is Bos ton's biggest afternoon paper (circulation 210,000), but it is not renowned for its editorial vigor. In the normal course of events, a few stanch followers of the Traveler's, editorial page would have nod ded their heads over Joe Toye's diatribe, and that would have been that. But City Editor Horton Edmands, one day last week, found in his mail a letter of protest from the German Consulate in Boston...
...Clay will probably draw the starting nod from Stahl but Jack Schwede and Burgy Ayres may also see action on the hill. Charley Spreyer is favored for the backstop post in place of Senior Bob Fulton...
...what direction would he nod? Guesses: 1) toward the pro-Roosevelt Democratic slates, 2) toward Arthur Vandenberg. No one expected him to come to the aid of "Buster" Dewey. First guess seemed the best, for Bob La Follette is a veteran New Dealer, strong for every fibre of the President's domestic program, against him on only two major matters: La Follette is isolationist, believes fanatically in an if-you-can't-pay-don't-go fiscal policy. Messrs. Roosevelt & La Follette pair naturally, and each is beholden to the other. Yet Vandenbergers kept up their hopes...