Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longshoreman on the New York waterfront. But as anyone who has seen the film On the Waterfront knows, when the men jam up at the hiring hall, it is not that simple. The hiring agent may point at Joe or he may give the nod to Frank. Each day the men come back, some hoping for work, some not caring since their mere presence means that they qualify for unemployment insurance...
...choose them, yet they jostle to get into the front row of his section, and even the oldtimers grow rigid with respect and intimidation when someone calls out: "Here comes Pete now." To the young hero narrator it becomes a matter of the first importance to be given the nod by Pete. Why? Is it that Pete picks only the best, separates the men from the boys? Or is he a "father image," a stand-in for a rough guy's notion of God? The narrator hardly knows and finally hardly cares. He cannot face Pete even when...
...question is apt to be: "What does it all mean?" At 30, it is more likely: "Is this all there is?" If at 40 or so, the questioner still has received no reply, he usually provides his own answers-to the first question a smile, to the second a nod. But British Author Burgess is neither a smiler nor a nodder. At 43 he is still banging noisily on God's door, insisting on cosmic answers...
...eagerly promoted by such farm-state influences as Stuart Symington and Hubert Humphrey -was Missouri Farmer Fred V. Heinkel, 62, who for 20 years has been president of the important Missouri Farmers Association, the biggest statewide farm cooperative in the nation. If Heinkel got the nod, Kennedy planned to make George McGovern chief administrator of the food-for-peace program...
...football team almost beat the favored Yale eleven yesterday. Leading 8 to 7 at the end of the third quarter, the Crimson finally gave in to a powerful Bulldog 90-yard drive in the fourth quarter which gave the Blue the nod...