Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small talk, and was often abstracted; stalking around Oxford with his pipe in his teeth, he frequently passed close friends in the street without seeing them, or with only a cursory nod. He once told an interviewer: "If I were reincarnated. I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him; he is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything...
Conductor Franz Waxman raised his baton, and the orchestra sailed into the opening bars of Stravinsky's piano concerto. Then he gave the nod for the first piano passage, and the piano came right in on cue. The audience at last week's International Music Festival in Los Angeles did 2,000 double takes: though the piano bench was vacant, the music was coming out loud and clear...
...that Spain's 30 million people were given some inkling of what lies ahead when the Franco era ends. The monarchy seemed certain to return - at least for a while - but would Franco bring back from exile the Pretend er Don Juan, 48, or would he give the nod to Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos? Don Juan has rarely been in Franco's good graces since their first bitter quarrel in 1936. But the continued estrangement is largely Don Juan's own fault; he has passed up many opportunities to heal old wounds. He even...
...unknown, but chances are Al Yarbro will return to action. Yarbro, a fastballer, has been having his troubles this year, but if he is in good form, that should be the ball game. In the event Shepard passes over Yarbro, Dick Garibaldi (5-1) will probably get the nod. Garibaldi had won five in a row before running into the demolition crew at Holy Cross last week...
...Because the patient looks attentive and friendly, and perhaps tries to nod, they say. 'Oh, he understands everything, but he just won't talk-he's stubborn.' Then they tell us how he reads the newspapers...