Word: nodding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...eagerly promoted by such farm-state influences as Stuart Symington and Hubert Humphrey -was Missouri Farmer Fred V. Heinkel, 62, who for 20 years has been president of the important Missouri Farmers Association, the biggest statewide farm cooperative in the nation. If Heinkel got the nod, Kennedy planned to make George McGovern chief administrator of the food-for-peace program...
...football team almost beat the favored Yale eleven yesterday. Leading 8 to 7 at the end of the third quarter, the Crimson finally gave in to a powerful Bulldog 90-yard drive in the fourth quarter which gave the Blue the nod...
...Land of Nod...
...With scarcely so much as a nod to doctors-for-Nixon, the influential Christian Science Monitor-which supported Ike in 1952 and neither candidate in 1956 -endorsed Richard Nixon as the man more likely to give the U.S. "positive, progressive and skilled leadership...
...liked to explain it: "Don't write anything you can phone, don't phone anything you can talk face to face, don't talk anything you can smile, don't smile anything you can wink, and don't wink anything you can nod." Earl wiped up a $45 million budget surplus, then went on a piratical tax spree. True to Huey's method of giving the people what they wanted while soaking them for it. he expanded welfare programs and at the same time allowed the patronage-hungry legislature to kill off the civil...