Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer proved to be yes to any of these questions, they could be barred from the U.S. Crew members traveled on a collective visa issued for the entire ship's company and were asked only some of the embarrassing questions. Mostly U.S. immigration officials passed them with a nod and a wave...
...Hofstra College in Hempstead, L.I., the Crown and Lance fraternity planned its "Hell Week" hazing with care. After a nod of approval from their faculty sponsor, the fun-loving brothers daubed the heads and bellies of seven blindfolded pledges with a noxious mixture of ketchup, mustard, egg yolk and water. The pledges promptly broke out in skin blisters ; one got a badly burned eye. Suspecting that heavyhanded undergraduates had fouled up the recipe with lye or turpentine, the interfraternity council decreed that Hofstra will hereafter have no hazing...
...this year's sweepstakes, proper timing is essential. Many Oscar contenders released earlier this year (e.g., Ivanhoe, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Carrie) are commonly regarded as already too old to get an Academy nod. This strange tradition of fast-fading eligibility has produced an equally strange custom: year-end "prerelease" of most of the brightest Oscar hopefuls...
John L. Lewis, a U.S. citizen who is bigger than the United States Government, an individual at whose nod the wheels of the greatest industrial system in the world grind towards a halt, a man whose unspoken motto is-The Public Be Damned...
...Green's defensive backfield is a muddle of inexperience. Injured veteran linebacker Mike Papantones will miss the game today, and his successor is still unamed, although either Mackey or Johnson will probably get the nod. Tom Malcolm an alert junior who missed the opening games, will be the other backer...