Word: nods
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...them through the safety procedures (schoolchildren get the extended lesson), serve them snacks and cold drinks and answer questions about how an aircraft works. (One pupil recently asked if there was a horn to tell the other planes to get out of the way in traffic.) In a nod to a more innocent time, passengers are free to visit the pilots in the cockpit. "We are fulfilling life wishes," says Gupta. "We want people to have a good time, to inspire them, so that kids see that if they study hard they might become a pilot...
...Overhearing Katumba from the next table, Peter Gaehler raps his cane on the floor and erupts. "These foreigners come here and abuse our social system! Half of them don't speak our language," says Gaehler, 78, as several nearby people listen in and nod in agreement. "Why should we give them passports...
...songs rarely strayed from studio versions (again, perhaps a nod to new fans in search of something fresh yet familiar), which actually wasn’t a negative. Berninger’s conversational singing style, an evocative baritone, suited the space well, as did his brief suspensions of composure, as when he casually threw his mic-stand backstage on the last song...
Slower songs, such as “Daughters of the SoHo Riots” and “About Today,” were a nod to Doveman, who opened. His set utilized a number of National members; he concealed his vocals behind a pleasant, plodding wall of sound, at the centerpiece of which was the novel juxtaposition of banjo and keyboard...
...risking a nighttime foot patrol through Musayyib to gauge local support of a recent program enlisting volunteers from the town and surrounding villages into ad hoc militias supported and paid by the U.S. military. When he asks the Iraqi men how security is in town, they all smile and nod and chat among themselves excitedly. "Good. Good. Already we to go to the peace," says Salih Ibrahim, 50, an art teacher who speaks rough English and who tries to translate questions from his friends. Ibrahim says one region to the east of town still swarms with members of the Jaish...