Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalists will choose between two principal candidates to succeed Malan: Finance Minister Nicolaas Havenga, 72, and long-necked Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 61, a onetime ostrich farmer who runs the Nationalist Party machine and who is even more fanatically racialist than Daniel Malan. Last week retiring Dr. Malan gave his nod to Havenga, the more moderate of the two but nonetheless a man who could be trusted to hew to the harsh line laid out by Preacher Malan...
...school to the district until the red tape of establishing a regular school could be untangled. Then the school could be reconverted into its component houses and sold. When Architect Victor Abrahamson showed them the plans for Oddstad's project, the local school board quickly gave him the nod. A San Francisco bank lent the money, and Oddstad's construction crews rushed the school to completion...
...Kingdom by his death, and appointed Judas, his "most faithful and perceptive" disciple, to betray him. Taken down from the cross, apparently dead, he revived in the tomb, met with several of his disciples, saw he had made a mistake, and went off to the "Land of Nod" to start all over again...
...pressing enough to open its scientific session with a serious discussion of sleep and the lack of it. Physicians from far-flung Commonwealth countries as well as those from Britain proper squirmed in comfortless, sleep-discouraging seats in garish Kelvin Hall and listened with never a wink or a nod to a panel of experts...
Previously, shortstop, Krinsky's fourth inning error had enabled the Blue to tie the score at 2 to 2. The varsity had gone ahead in the top of the inning on a walk to Nod Felton, Butters' double to left, and successive infield outs...