Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire half-mile course Day and Simmons rowed almost stroke for stroke, and when they shot across the finish line, Coach Blake Dennison gave the nod to Day by less than 18 inches...
...each member enters the chamber, he bows once to the speaker of the house (who is the referee) and upon receiving an acknowledging nod, takes his seat. Work begins at once, (the House meets daily at two-thirty in the afternoon and often works past midnight). A printed list of questions is in the hand of each member. On the list are the questions, the member asking the question, and the cabinet member to whom the question is addressed. An average day sees 100 questions asked, and since the answers have been prepared in advance in writing, the cabinet officer...
...examine a shrub or gaze speculatively at one of the old buildings, and passers-by can detect bits of conversation that pass between the stroller and some invisible colleague. Indeed, at certain points, the figure seems to stop and engage in lengthy discourse with himself, ending abruptly with a nod of decision and a hurried resumption of his path toward Lehman Hall. The early morning boulevardier is Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University and his invisible colleague might well be the spiritual embodiment of the Harvard Corporation, which has saddled this shrewd Yankee with a thankless job that...
Vince Moravec will got the nod from Samborski tomorrow if his arm is in shape. Moravec pitched against Squantum last Monday and had to be pulled at the end of the fifth inning when he developed a sore arm. If Vince's whip is not in shape, Samborski's alternate choice will be either Seymour Croft or Crawford Hubbell. Croft pitched the last two innings of Monday's game and turned in a very workmanlike performance allowing only one run and two hits...
...week, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, ruffled as a wet hen over Harry Truman's rejection of his advice on the OPA bill, stiffly snubbed the President's overture of friendship. For Harry Truman's pat on his arm, the Kentucky Senator had only a formal nod...