Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale's heavies were seeded first Tuesday, followed by Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Navy and Pennsylvania. Jim Rathschmidt's Elis got the nod on the basis of their Carnegie Cup victory over Cornell last Saturday on the Housatonic. The Crimson is unbeaten...
...Before we opened this place," he continues, "the only person we knew in Cambridge practically was Pat. Now we know everybody, and Gene and I aren't sure we dig it. Oh, sure, I guess we do," Dave retracts on reflection and after a quick nod to Gene across the gilded plywood table...
...that the effort to dump Nixon from the Republican ticket has run into strong, public opposition from President Eisenhower himself, the All-American Boy of the Republican Party is apparently destined for the number two spot once again--assuming that both Nixon and the convention nod approval. If liberal Republicans remain silent between now and August, Nixon seems to have a clear path to the nomination...
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee gave the nod to an abridged edition of the Ohio Senator's favorite text, the wording changed to render it ostensibly innocuous. Any similarity to previous versions, claim the resolution's advocates, is purely coincidental. If the new amendment is as innocuous as the Brickerites claim, however, it should be unnecessary. On the other hand, if the proposal is supposed to assert itself by implication, if its innocent language obscures hidden teeth, then the amendment could be dangerous as an obstruction to effective foreign dealings. In either case, explicitly superfluous or implicitly harmful...
...Thank you, Mr. President"), and newsmen stampeded for the door. Against the risk that their White House correspondents in the front rows might lose precious seconds in the crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose to end the conference. Newsmen lucky enough to have staked out corridor phone booths leaped to call their offices. But some, like Harold Greer of the Toronto Star, ran four long blocks to the National Press Building to file their stories...