Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every problem in the first few days became a pattern. Enrico would ask me a question and I'd answer it. Then he'd ask another question that made it obvious he had misunderstood my answer. So I would repeat my answer again, phrased differently, and he would nod his head and then say something like "So we can take the Red Line to the Aquarium?" when I'd told him, no, they couldn...
...concert became an end unto itself, and when it was over, America went home. The hunger movement was never to be heard from again, as reports of poorly managed and squandered relief resources were largely ignored. "We had our fun," America thought, "We gave our token nod to hunger. Bring on the next hot movement...
King Birendra Shah has ruled Nepal since 1972 without much of a nod to democracy. Political parties are outlawed, and the King effectively controls the parliament. Last week, as he confronted an increasingly militant popular movement for democracy, the monarch decided to appear conciliatory. He dismissed his hard-line Cabinet and promised to create a new government that would "consult people holding different political views...
...been robbed of the presidency in 1972, when Salvadoran soldiers halted the vote count and beat the candidate severely. Duarte fled into exile in Venezuela, not venturing home until seven years later, when a coup paved the way for his participation in a military-civilian junta. When the presidential nod finally came, he proclaimed, "This moment is just the beginning of a much longer road...
...expects these kind of superlatives out of network announcers. But when senior Captain Meredith Rainey of the Harvard women's track team spoke of the Crimson's performance this past weekend at the Heptagonal Championships in Ithaca, N.Y., those who witnessed Harvard's triumph could only nod their heads in knowing agreement...