Word: nod
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ally of the breeze. It heats the air till it becomes the loo and then sends it on its errand. Even in the intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings up the prickly heat. It produces a numbness which makes the head nod and the eyes heavy with sleep. It brings on a stroke which takes its victim as gently as breeze bears a fluff of thistledown." -Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan...
Last week Hoosier Halleck was hoisted from the floor to the rostrum to be permanent chairman of next month's Republican Convention in Chicago. National Chairman Thruston Morton, with a nod from Vice President Nixon, overlooked plain-mugged Charlie Halleck's lack of TV appeal, heeded Halleck's claim to the job by virtue of being the House Republican leader. Knowing Halleck's onetime dreams of a Nixon-Halleck ticket (unshared by Nixon), G.O.P. brass hoped that Halleck would accept the chairman's gavel as his full reward for work well done...
...Scripps-Howard newspaper chain announced their unanimous blessing of Lyndon Johnson as "the ablest and strongest" candidate for the Democratic nomination, reserved decision on a Republican choice "until a later day when, and if, a contest develops." The ultraconservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader also gave Johnson a curt nod as its favorite Democrat. And Long Island's Newsday, one of the first U.S. dailies to come out for Adlai Stevenson in 1956, was early again in 1960-plumping for a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket...
...women hurrying past a drugstore, or bending over a fountain to get a quick drink, or just eating a hotdog. The waitresses and working girls about the square had a special fascination, for they, too, represented movement. In the U.S., says Isabel Bishop, giving an artist's nod to sociology, the working girl has no intention of standing still: she is determined to move up in the world, and "all her children will go to college." As the years passed, the Bishop Girl became a kind of trademark...
...round traffic estimates were too optimistic: its stations in four Florida cities cost more than they were worth, and it failed to push coach service, stuck to an 80%-20% first-class-tourist ratio while its competitors reaped the benefits of mass travel. The company's one small nod to economy last week: a 10% cut in salary for 18 top officers, for a saving of $40,000 a year, or about 1 10 of 1% of Capital's debts...