Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perkins is currently concerned about a possible imbalance in the House created by a lack of athletes. Some House members have gone so far as to suggest that he recruit a few House football players. "I might," he says with a nod towards Eliot House, "Finley's been getting away with it for years." Other than that, Perkins has no immediate plans. "I'll be content to just keep on trying to make big ones out of little ones," he says...
...game may well hinge on the play of the second and third lines, and especially on the second defense. Tony Patton, Nod Almy and Jim O'Brien. Ed Mrkonich and Jeff Coolidge will start on the first defense, with Carl Hathaway or Brad Richardson in the goal...
Watts, who has one of the fastest shots in the game, may have trouble with his timing because of the strange courts. Princeton's Roger Campbell has been playing well, but Watts still gets the nod in both meets...
...Stimson. (Stimson's predecessor, Frank Kellogg, had irritated Curtis by ruling against Dolly.) After a chat with President Hoover, canny Henry Stimson ruled that the matter would have to be decided by the diplomatic corps. In a plenary session at the British Embassy, the harried diplomats gave the nod to Dolly Gann...
...throat out of commission. She was nervous at first, opening with two sitting ducks, Exactly Like You and Keep It a Secret. These first numbers she hit casually and with a pronounced beat, just warming up. A voice from the floor asked for some bop. Ella gave the nod to her piano man, Hank Jones, and the audience knew that this was still the old Fitzgerald...