Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moderate" should head the Democratic ticket; only a thoroughgoing, yard-wide New Dealer has a chance to beat Dwight Eisenhower. And only Harriman stands "for the principles of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, the only principles which will win in this campaign." (Retorted Stevenson, with an assenting nod from Eleanor Roosevelt: "I protest Mr. Harriman's claim that he has any exclusive rights to those principles...
With Stevenson the acknowledged front runner, Harriman and Stevenson look on the vice-presidential hopefuls with different eyes. Harriman is inclined to nod toward a candidate who can bring him delegates in the convention, e.g., Williams. Stevenson, confident of nomination, is inclined toward a running mate who can perhaps bring him a new bloc of votes in November, e.g., Kennedy. In short, is the vice-presidency to be reward or bait? The 1956 assumption: bait...
...francs ($6,570) between them. Then something went wrong; the Casino dice that Aggie had temporarily removed from the contest got stuck in his sleeve, and he had to pass the croupier a loaded pair. A cherubic, bow-tied observer with the look of a house detective tipped the nod to the croupier, who promptly raked in the dice, and the three Californians, sensing that their good fortune might be at an end, tiptoed softly out of the gaming room, past the well-tended Casino gardens and across the border into France, which is only a few blocks away...
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...
...said not only to tolerate debate, but actually to encourage and urge it. The fact that we see eye to eye on the mysteries of the incarnation, the redemption and the divine trinity does not make it any easier-or, for that matter, even necessary-that we all nod our heads together when someone mentions the Bricker amendment, fluoridation of water, or the merger of the C.I.O. and A.F.L...