Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roll cast their ballots for an unknown councilor, a nobody, someone not even campaigning for the post. He in turn, in a moment of glee, shouted his own name. And then, maybe by mistake, or sheer exhaustion, the anonymous councilor accumulated a fourth, and then a fifth and final nod. The deadlock was smashed. The councilors awaited the bang of the clerk's gavel officially ending the stalemate...
...toward his interpreter and speak directly at her instead of at the Americans. She listened and watched his lips closely. His difficulty in forming words is apparently the result of strokes. Sometimes Miss Tang did not understand what Mao said. She would repeat the sentence and he would nod if she got it right. Other times she had to write the words down and show them to Mao for verification...
...says she'd quit, but she has nothing else to do. "You know why we do these things? Because we're oppressed. It's this system; there has to be a change in this system. Then we wouldn't have to do this." The women beside her all nod in agreement...
...been given the nod as number two in the country because, among all of last year's Eastern powers, the Terriers have been the least hurt by graduation, defection to the pros, or selection to Olympic teams. Ten of their top twelve forwards return, as do six of the top seven defensemen. Brian Durocher and Pat Devlin are back to man the nets again...
Drugs were probably responsible for her current condition. On April 14, apparently depressed over personal problems, she took some tranquilizers, then went to a bar to celebrate a friend's birthday. After drinking gin and tonic, she began, as one friend put it, "to nod out." Thomas French, 22, helped Karen out of the tavern, then the group took her home and put her to bed, where she passed out. When French looked in on her a few moments later, he realized that she was more than drunk. "I just looked at her and I realized she wasn...