Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given to the plethora of political observers who gave the winning nod to Yale graduate John F. Kerry instead of former Adams House resident and Harvard grad William F. Weld...
...last year he seriously considered it. But he says he couldn't imagine spending most of his time "having cocktails with people who want to explain the obvious, or tell me how what's good for them is good for the country, and I have to smile and nod because now I'm just another politician who needs their money...
John said he'd probably be able to make an exception to catch-and-release in Saddam's case. But there was a risk, he said, that he'd nod off for a nap while the subject was being discussed. He told me that his wife Jean sometimes starts to say something to him and then quietly tiptoes away. If he got to the White House, he must have been thinking, someone like the Secretary of State might have to take Jean's role...
...there are the politicians. The two parties' conventions were virtuefests, four-day parades of people conspicuously devoted to their families. Bob Dole vowed to revive "old values," and Bill Clinton vowed to "protect our values." Even presidential adviser Dick Morris, while drowning in a prostitution scandal, managed the obligatory nod to virtue. His parting statement embraced Clinton's vision of an America of "opportunity and"--yes--"responsibility." (Morris may be a candidate for the Charlie Sheen recovery program...
Since Monahan is an elected official and Trumbull is simply a party activist, state party leaders gave the nod to the Belmont resident...