Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defining the relative importance of Test scores and college records, Toepfer wrote, "It is the Test Score which decides who gets the nod," but the college record puts applicants in a ranked category "where the nods are few or frequent...
...before little Jim learned to walk, father taught him to play ball. Every day after school he made the boy run. slide, throw, catch until his hands hung dead on his wrists. "We're going for the big leagues, boy," he would mutter fiercely, and the child would nod fiercely in agreement. At 17 Jim was a spectacular outfielder whose all-round talents won the state championship for his high-school team; but his father was never satisfied. "How'd I do, dad?" Jim asked anxiously after playing a prodigious game. And father implacably replied...
...Higginbottom gets the nod as wing on the first line (and it is quite possible that he will), he will provide the speed to the line that has been sorely missed since Kelley's injury. Higginbottom, who has played on the third line all year long, ic actually good enough to be of first or second line caliber. But when Weiland found that Bob McVey, Dave Vietze, and Dick Fischer worked so well together, he decided to leave Higginbottom on the third line to make it as powerful as possible...
...garage-workshop they found a lathe. Said one cop, patting the machine: "Here we have the whole story." But back in the house, behind washtubs in a closet, they found another chapter: short pieces of pipe, three cheap pocket watches and some flashlight batteries. With hardly more than a nod from the cops, George put on his street clothes with his customary fastidiousness, bade his moaning sisters goodbye, and, beaming through his round, gold-rimmed glasses like a parish clergyman off on his rounds, drove downtown to headquarters...
...cheerful as a bottle of champagne. That is how the question stood. Legislators were batting new names around, and Homer Ludwick had hope in his heart. Perhaps they would drop "North," and call it "Dakota." Or maybe "Miami," someone suggested, or "Dixie," or "East Guadalajara," or, with a nod to their Canadian neighbor, "South Manitoba." Maybe even "Welk...