Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backfield Alky Tsitsos and Ed Cronin will pair as the halfbacks. Sophomore Neil Miller, a tremendous surprise in the Brown scrimmage, will get the nod at fullback...
...tongues-a few crucial gestures mean diametrically opposite things in the two cultures. When Arabs shake their heads from side to side, they are saying yes instead of no. Moreover, when Arabs mean no, they move the head upward (and click with the tongue), seeming, to Western eyes, to nod assent. Apparently, however, most foreigners find it easy to switch to the Arab system. Barakat relates the story of an English teacher in the Middle East whose wife had remained behind in England. When one of his Arab students left for a trip to England, the teacher suggested that...
...Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox turned up for "Mule Day" at Gold Hills amusement park in Dahlonega, Ga. Maddox headed up a panel of four judges to pick the prettiest, ugliest and orneriest mules -with Ida, Bullwinkle, and a six-week-old youngster named Tom respectively getting the nod. While Maddox declined invitations to enter the hog-calling contest and greased-pig chase, he did accept a challenge to mount a mule. His first effort ended in a disastrous sprawl on the ground, and on the second try Maddox somehow wound up mounted backward on the beast. But then Lester even...
...drug pushers out of their neighborhoods, and most of them severely punish members caught using heroin or cocaine. There is little evidence of this in the Philadelphia gangs. That is partly because drugs seem to be less prevalent there. As one young member explained succinctly, "You can't nod and gang-war at the same time." When not warring, drinking wine and listening to records appear to be the gangs' principal definition of a good time...
...gently signaled a lyrical passage with a crook of the finger and a nod of the head. A percussive, firmly beating section found him tapping a foot and doing shallow knee bends. Whatever his body language, the playing and singing were exhilarating in their bel canto mood and color, and the standing ovation of the audience was almost anticlimactic. As Sills put it: "He's going to be one of our great American artists...