Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shows he's as cool under fire as barbecue sauce in a heat wave. Andy Borowitz is on target too, in his characterization of Lycus, a gentleman and procurer. He adds just the right dash of street hip, and being skinny with black moustache, owes more than just a nod to Groucho in his delivery. Vincent DiBenedetto, Marc Johnson and Philip Murray take their bit parts (they sing triple as Lycus's eunuchs, slaves and the soldiers of Miles Gloriosus) and polish them until they gleem...
...Ambassador to NATO to Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld). Two were in the running for the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination until the final cut (Governors Christopher Bond of Missouri and Robert Ray of Iowa); another (Federal Trade Commissioner Elizabeth Hanford) last December married the man who finally got the nod, Robert Dole...
Your issue was a delight, but in all those pages on the glorious emergence of the South, there was only the briefest nod toward the reason why we're booming down here. If it weren't for air conditioning, the South would be uninhabitable, by modern standards, for six to nine months of the year...
...query by Overton of the woman and a nod from her comfirming the rumor planted the seeds of an episode that so far has resulted in prostitution convictions for the Radcliffe woman and a Summer School woman studying dance, the resignation of a Buildings and Grounds supervisor, and several charges against Overton, including taking money from the earnings of a prostitute...
Leonard, who got the nod for his second start in the series from manager Whitey Herzog, went to the showers early after the Yankees peppered him with three straight hits...