Word: nod
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Question last week was whether they would be able to use them. The most important ingredient of all-a benevolent nod from Washington-was nowhere to be seen. If the New Deal has no use for Chip Robert, Avila Camacho has a lot of use for the friendship of the New Deal. It is a good customer for his useless silver. It may, if his negotiations are successful, even become a good customer for Mexico's expropriated oil. In such delicate times, Avila Camacho, for all his hospitality to pioneering principles, would not want to incur Washington...
Rounding out the eleven, was Ray Frick, Penn's all-American candidate, who came through in the last part of the poll to gain the nod over Ed Ingalls of Michigan...
Cape Burnam and Al Bartholemy, who featured an otherwise stale Yale team, were the sole Elis to gain spots on the team. Burnam won the right-guard post over Sukup of Michigan by two votes, while Bartholemy got the nod over Krieger of Dartmouth by the same slim margin...
...waltz rhythm: e.g., on an off-tackle play, the back getting the ball counts one-two-three steps, turns on his outside foot for balance, hits the line of scrimmage at the point where the linesmen (likewise counting one-two-three) have opened a hole. The whole team nod their heads in waltz time...
...chair in Independence Hall, sanitized with a sheet of Kleenex). Secretary Stimson gingerly put his left hand in the jar, took the first capsule he touched, handed it to Mr. Roosevelt. The President, old stager that he was, glanced at the newsreel and radio men, got their nod before he intoned: "The first number is one-five-eight." Registration serial number 158, held by some 6.175 registrants throughout the U. S.. thus became Draft Order...