Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karen Ann Quinlan mysteriously collapsed shortly after drinking gin and tonic with friends. She had apparently taken some tranquilizers earlier, and the combination caused her "to nod out at the bar," as one of the friends put it. He took her to the house she was visiting, and she passed out. He attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, then called an ambulance. After six months in the hospital, her mother says, she "isn't really living any more...
...upon-artists-type says in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. And it's a measure of his pretension that he thinks a picture of the corner drugstore down the street, a store you might pass every day, couldn't have any "dignity." But in the novel, his contemporaries nod in assent, and Proust himself might accept this sentimental notion...
Before each game, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath finds a quiet spot and seems to nod off. In the middle of a gale on Long Island Sound, while her friends are wrestling with lines and sails, Wendy Sherman, a Manhattan adwoman, slips to the bow of a 36-ft. yawl, makes herself as comfortable as she can, and closes her eyes. On warm afternoons in Rome, Ga., Municipal Court Judge Gary Hamilton and his wife Virginia can be found on their screened porch, apparently dozing. It is not a compulsion to sleep that these and perhaps 600,000 other...
Going Zowee. So far, the horde of promotions has drawn a beneficent nod from the guardians of tradition. "I see no harm in these Bicentennial products," says Robert Williams, executive secretary of the New York chapter of the Sons of the Revolution. "There's nothing wrong with making a buck. Free enterprise is the thing that has made this country go zowee." Another reason some approve: makers of souvenirs that meet the modest standards of the Government's American Revolution Bicentennial Administration pay royalties for the use of ARBA's imprimatur, and those fees...
...Curry doesn't start Saturday Jimmy Cannon or George Ticknor will probably get the nod...