Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invention the typewriter is, and how useful it would be in an examination room. But nothing has ever come of our notion, and the fact that we repeat it now is not an indication that we really expect the Faculty to consider the matter in January, but merely a nod to the passing of time and an assurance, to those of you who doubt, that there are still some things in this world that can be counted...
...blossom blue, a pigment so precious that the duke listed two pots of it among his treasures. The queen's handbook was meant to delight as well as instruct. The Nativity (see cut) introduces the text for sunrise prayers, but just in case courtly heads should begin to nod, Artist Jean Pucelle, a Paris illuminator so famed that even Dante sang his praise, spiced it with a troupe of acrobats and a monster king tempting a dog with a colossal jawbone...
Surprisingly, however, few faculty members and fewer students apparently really debate the issue. Segregation in the South, like Communism elsewhere, is really not a serious subject for debate. Even those who might be against it had rather keep silent, or simply nod their head, instead of questioning so sacred a principle as "separate but equal...
Brimstone Words. When Adlai arrived at the inn, he faced angry opposition in the formidable persons of House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson−who share in the South's dislike of Estes Kefauver and thought a wide-open convention would give the nod to Estes and his primary-built organization. Rayburn and Johnson used brimstone words while protesting that, in giving the convention its choice, Stevenson would seem to be abdicating his responsibility. People might think that Adlai would have equal trouble making up his mind about "whether some night to use the Seventh...
...high praise for Eleanor Roosevelt, who "reminded us so movingly that this is 1956 and not 1932; not even 1952; that our problems alter as well as their solutions; that change is the law of life, and that political parties ignore it at their peril." There was also a nod to Harry Truman, the spirit of '48: "I am glad to have you on my side again...