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Word: nods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another line will team Nod Bliss, Captain Scott Cooledge, and Frank Mahoney. This combination played strong defensive hockey throughout the tourney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Sextet Will Face Huskies In Inaugural of New Watson Rink | 1/7/1955 | See Source »

...nod goes to President Eisenhower . . . This year ranks as the most peaceful one in the cold war period . . . Undoubtedly the President receives a large part of credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...into the chest of Edna, 37, a housewife who had had rheumatic fever at 18 and was now suffering from scarring and narrowing of the mitral valve in her heart. As the scalpel made swift but precise cuts and laid bare a rib, Dr. Artusio asked: "Can you nod your head?" Edna nodded. Dr. Glenn lifted a pair of shears and snipped out the rib. Then he cut deeper, through the layers of the heart sac, until the pulsing organ itself was laid bare. He plunged his gloved finger into it and wiggled his fingertip, so that it tore some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Conscious Under the Knife | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...Yale fan, always prone to prejudice, noted the passing of these three with varying degrees of regret--the first was pleasant if non-essential, the second important if not indispensable, the third, at this particular point indispensable. And thus, with a nod and a shiver at this good Yale team and its huge line, it would appear that for the second successive season an underdog Crimson team will upset the Bulldogs...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/18/1954 | See Source »

Sullivan, twisting about to catch the reaction of the presiding Mayor, got a favorable nod. He loudly requested the definite number of policemen twice more. Ready stood by his conviction that "enough" was a number. At this point Sullivan stood up and leaned across his desk toward Chief Ready...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves and Cliff F. Thompson, S | Title: Politics and Protection | 11/3/1954 | See Source »

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