Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan law firm of Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern. Moving back to New England, he practiced privately in North Adams, Mass. until 1947, when he became a Massachusetts commissioner of public utilities. Though technically only an interim appointee, Gadsby is expected to serve a full term and shortly get the nod as SEC's new chairman...
...Utah's Arthur Watkins. Each was a ranking contender for the chair on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee left empty by Joe McCarthy's death, and it was Bricker's job, as chairman of the Republican Committee on Committees, to make the choice. Ordinarily, the nod would have gone to the Republican with the greater seniority. Bricker's dilemma: both Ives and Watkins were sworn into the Senate on Jan. 3, 1947. Technically Ives could claim a hairbreadth of seniority because he had held previous legislative office (New York state), but Ives...
...spurt of skill of Detroit Third Baseman Reno Bertoia? For two full seasons, and even this spring, Bonus Baby Bertoia sometimes performed like a crossfoot clown in the field and was too tense at bat to hit his hat size. Still, as the season started, Bertoia was given the nod over Jim Finigan to play third. He has yet to make an error, and at week's end he was second in the American League in batting with a hefty .375 (behind Boston's Ted Williams...
...write when you can talk; don't talk when you can nod your head...
...Koran (printed in Israel), he told the court: "I know those cows as I know my children." Could he describe them, asked the court? Yes, said Mustafa, one had a very large udder, the other a twisted horn. The prosecutor and the judge looked at each other with a nod of assent. The truck in which the cows lowed sorrowfully was opened and the beasts clomped out-one with an extra-large udder, the other with a twisted horn...