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Word: nods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book will probably be received with polite but uneasy praise; his specific proposals will be picked apart by those who are nonplussed by his general principles. Most readers, however, will probably nod in agreement-and pass on, a mite more disturbed than before, to the daily chores of a world of expediency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Drowning Children | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Terrible-tempered Harold Ickes gave salty-tongued Jack Garner none of his sass. Related Garner: "I don't ever recall having had a conversation with Ickes. We just speak or nod. We don't seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Milk & Thorns | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Still awaiting President Truman's nod, the bill, according to a high White House spokesman, probably will be signed over the weekend. It would hike single vets' payments from 865 to 875, and would bulge married men's checks up to 330, according to the number of their dependents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vets' Pay Boost Begins in March | 2/5/1948 | See Source »

...dried deal that 66-year-old Louis St. Laurent would succeed him. There were other able (and younger) cabinet ministers in the running: Douglas Abbott (Finance), Brooke. Claxton (Defense), J. L. Ilsley (Justice) and James Gardiner (Agriculture). But the word had got around that St. Laurent had received the nod from Mackenzie King, and that alone put him far out in front. Besides, his succession would preserve the growing tradition of alternating

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Line of Succession | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...fourth win in five starts, coach Bill Barclay will start the same five men who got the nod against Tufts last Saturday night, but McCurdy and Bill Prior, who gave a creditable performance at the pivot post against the Jumbos in his first real chance, are slated for plenty of action against the tall men from Peoria, Illinois...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: McCurdy Eligible for Bradley Game | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

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