Word: nod
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Dartmouth could only nod and agree...
...situations and one-liners. Periodically Caesar would halt the schoolboy jockeying to read aloud what they had so far. "Read what?" Simon recalls asking. "We haven't written anything yet." But Caesar had culled the best of their ideas as he heard them and, by a wink or nod, had ensured they were recorded by the most junior writer...
...first winner, folks, is Abigail Adams. Mrs. Adams, the Susan Lucci of American Conservatism, has lost the Peninsula nod every year since her death in the early nineteenth century. It was good to see her back in action this year. She's dead, after all, and can't stir up controversy like those pesky living, speaking women you hear so much from these days...
...austerity measures, coupled with a bid to broaden and deepen medium-term economic reforms. A communique issued by the party's central committee indicated that the government was loosening the restraints on credit and growth that it imposed only last July. But the statement also made a significant nod to the importance of the market as "a fundamental factor in the disposition of resources." And it went on to endorse speedy reforms in taxation, banking and investment to provide a more sophisticated financial system for the nurturing of sustained growth. But those reforms will take time to bite...
...background check. Russians always ask me why I'm called Natasha. I used to answer that my mother just liked the name, but that was never sufficient. Now I respond immediately that my ancestors used to play violin in Odessa (one ancestor, name unknown, a long time ago); they nod, satisfied...