Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explained that they wanted to be freer to travel. Their treasures were a choice, if uneven, selection of modern paintings, sculpture and drawings, and it had both Parke-Bernet's main gallery (white tickets) and TV annex (pink tickets) jammed to overflowing. The bidding was brisk: a curt nod, a quick wave of a pencil, an almost imperceptible gesture with a finger-the secret semaphore of auctioneering-would send the bidding up anywhere from $100 to $5,000. When the auctioneer had exhausted every other trick in his bag of cajolery, he would invoke the ultimate persuader...
Both come with individual test sheets, telling you how your particular edition tested at the factory (all of which will probably cause you to nod and smile and look blank, but which has significance just the same. The fact that such tight quality control is kept on these items is re-assuring. And in the case of the ADC models it has been interesting for me to note that every one I've seen lately has greatly exceeded its advertised specifications...
Running an article on fairy stories without mentioning Hans Christian Andersen or Mother Goose would be unthinkable. The zoo did not spring from the ground like a soap bubble, and it does seem as though TIME might include a nod to the author...
...wink and a nod to the Lehman Zoo architect: Edward Coe Embury...
...Christian Democratic Party) in a National Front whose united list of candidates is presented to voters at each election with no other choices. After the election rituals, the S.E.D. always gains control of the Volkskammer (Peoples' Chamber), a rubber-stamp legislature that follows Ulbricht's every nod...