Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board of Higher Education gave the school the right to confer graduate liberal arts degrees. Currently the legislature is considering setting up a new state-supported graduate school. Now that the school's quiz kids have proved so bright, the chances are that Portland State will get the nod...
...public-affairs programming, Huntley-Brinkley or Walter Cronkite both get a slight nod. Lyndon Johnson fares worse. At Princeton last week, they stayed after U.N.C.L.E. to watch his civil rights address but spent most of the time groaning in pseudo-sophistication at his "pseudo-folksiness." At the University of Chicago, they didn't even wait. No sooner was the presidential seal on screen than the seats started emptying...
John Casey, whose story, "A Taste of Cherry," begins "I cannot describe to you very well the boarding school," deserves a nod of agreement and a sigh. Lee Grove, a young man distressed by what old men think, rates a prize for non-sequiturs and bad puns. Kevin Lewis, who has written two poems about vapid lives, could be accused of writing method poetry...
...months for the happy reason that it repealed the 18th. Fastest of all: the twelfth (separate electoral vote for President and Vice President), which in 1804 set the record of 187 days. Slowest: the 22nd (limiting Presidents to two terms) which took almost four years to get the nod in 1951. Newest of all: the 24th (barring poll taxes in federal elections), ratified 13 months ago. The U.S. Constitution is so hedged against change, yet so open to new interpretation, that lawyers and scholars favor amending it only in extreme circumstances. Presidential disability may well be such a circumstance...
...always, De Gaulle had spent several days preparing, honing and memorizing exactly what he wanted to say, but as always, he went through the formality of receiving questions from the floor, registering his comprehension of each with a grave nod or a murmured phrase ("très bieri"). When an editor asked him about his health...