Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diana (pronounced Deeann) Vreeland is better known than her anonymity tells; as the new editor in chief of Vogue Magazine, she is the professional bellwether to a certain special clique of chic. She has long been a flamboyant and energetic tastemaker; designers have been known to tremble at her nod, customers at private showings to pick purely what she picks, manufacturers and merchandisers to watch her every move with rapt fixation. She is, in fact, probably the single most fabled, venerated and respected backstage fashion force in the world today...
...college that would help achieve them. "It will be the object of the college to make better journalists, who will make better newspapers, which will better serve the public." Harvard was approached, but its faculty considered journalism on a par with lathe turning. Columbia finally got the nod, along with some $2,000,000 that became available after Pulitzer's death in 1911. The next year, the first class of 77 men and women entered the school-and al most immediately threatened to quit...
Chandler's campaign is vintage stuff. "The people love it," he has said. "Why, they eat it up." His crowds weep as he belts out a chorus of There's a Gold Mine in the Sky, nod reverently when he quotes the Bible, roar as he castigates Combs. Speaking of a $60,000 floral clock on the capitol grounds, Happy cries: "What time is it? Two petunias past the Jimson weed!" He promises that he will exempt food, medicine and clothing from the state's 3% sales tax without hurting the economy. When a woman asks...
Another Parliament? Kubitschek-the man who started Brasilia in the wilds, and mortgaged his country's present to its future-favors an emphasis on developing basic industries, with only a nod to immediate attempts to lift the standard of living for Latin America's masses. That, he argued, should come later, after the industrial base is secure. Lleras believes the reverse, argues for priority to short-term social projects such as housing, public health, roads and schools. "Our purposes are the same," said Kubitschek tactfully, "but our ways of looking at problems are sometimes different...
Rover. A stocky stranger, wearing a grey hat, a light raincoat and red gloves, opened the rear door and inquired. "Etes-vous Monsieur Lafond?" At Lafond's nod, he pumped two bullets into his victim's abdomen. then shot the chauffeur for good measure...