Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their work being done by the heart-lung machine, the surgeon opened her right ventricle. At this moment, speaking through the hearing aid, Marmer asked the girl to open her eyes. She did so at once. He asked her to nod her head if she could hear him. She nodded. To satisfy incredulous observers in the operating theater, Marmer repeated the routine, got the same responses. The surgeon widened the valve and sewed up the girl's heart. Marmer told her to go back to sleep. She slept soundly during...
Republicans of the Corn State, where the party's nod used to be enough to send a man to the Governor's chair, thus broke seniority rules to enlist the services of a fast-running newcomer. They had reason enough: Incumbent Herschel C. (for Cel-lel) Loveless, 47, rough-cut sample of the conservatism that marks today's Democratic Governors. By vetoing the legislature's extension of the sales tax at the 2½% level, thus letting it slip to 2%, Loveless last year won the retailers around the border counties, then placated other groups...
HUGE NAVY ORDERS are coming for Lockheed's turboprop Electra. In hot race, it won Navy's nod to be prime land-based antisubmarine plane in jet age. Insiders expect Navy to buy some 100 Electras for about $4,000,000 each over next few years, figure Navy will eventually replace all its 500 Lockheed Neptune antisub fighters with Electras...
There are a good many people in any diverse exhibition, like John Doylan, Michael Pollatzek, David Szanton and Sarah Wheeler, whose work is especially notable but escapes the nod of the most competent jury. At the risk of slighting American traditions their work demands equal recognition. In time we may be able to attract painters of equal energy to the College in greater numbers, and even keep the ones we already have...
...dining hall was crowded and there was apparently no place else to sit so he slipped into the remaining empty chair at a corner table with an apologetic nod. He ate slowly and methodically, first a forkful of potatoes, then a bit of meat, then to string beans and then back to potatoes and start all over...