Word: nods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...handed down last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Georgia legislature in January will bestow the state's governorship on either Democrat Maddox, 51, or Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, neither of whom received a majority in the November general election. The likely outcome is that the nod will go to Maddox, even though Callaway outpolled him on Election Day by 3,538 votes...
Sophomore Bill Diercks, who had the unfortunate experience of being bombed before he could warm up in the third period against the Olympics, will probably get the nod for goalie. The 5' 6" Crimson sophomore will present quite a contrast in size, if not in skill, to the 6' 3" Dryden...
...monarch, using the ancient ways and rituals to carry his country forward. Theoretically he is a figurehead, limited to ceremonial functions. Beneath the surface he keeps up a mosaic of relationships that make him the most influential man in the kingdom; no governmental change could succeed without his legitimizing nod...
...With a nod toward Capitol Hill, where Montana's Mike Mansfield and other Senators have recently been debating the nation's dwindling silver resources, Washington Star Fashion Editor Eleni last week observed, "They keep wondering what's happened to the silver supply. Well, I could tell them. It's all on women's backs...
When he signed the bill creating the twelfth Cabinet-rank federal agency last month, Lyndon Johnson gave no nod, verbal or cranial, to the man who had worked hardest to create the Administration's long-sought Department of Transportation. Alan Stephenson Boyd stood stoically aside while the President praised others and declared gratuitously that he was looking for a "strong man" to head DOT. Last week Johnson announced his choice: Alan Boyd, 44, former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board who, as Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, had devoted his days since June 1965 to the task...