Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Governments in Latin America, Asia and even Africa began sounding out their chances of making the list. Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau demanded an invitation by telex -and got the White House O.K. within an hour. Italy's Premier Emilio Colombo also got Nixon's nod. Portugal's Premier Marcello Caetano made the list only because the Azores is Portuguese territory. When Brazil's President Emilio Garrastazu Medici arrived in Washington last week, he found his long-scheduled courtesy call upgraded to two hour-long sessions with the President. After the White House finally...
...little girl was about four, and, to pass the time, she leaned her back against the glass showcase and stared up at my unshaven face. I told her she was about the prettiest girl I'd seen all day. Which made sense to her; she nodded. I said I'd bet she had a lot of boyfriends. I got the same nod again. I asked her how many boy friends she had. She held up two fingers. "Two!" I said. "That's a lot of boyfriends. What are their names, sweetheart?" Said she, in a piercing voice, "Bobby and Dorothy...
...Foster starts firing Interceptions again, the Crimson will stick to its ground game. But if the runners fail to duplicate their performance against Columbia and Northeastern, then Restic will finally have to go with a new quarterback. Frank Guerra will get the nod if the situation calls for a drop-back passer, and Jim Stoekel will go in if Restic wants a rollout quarterback...
That fall I put a "Rockefeller for President" poster in my window, and after Nixon got the nod, I wore a huge (it's still my largest button) "Our Nation Needs Nixon-Lodge" button that pulled holes in my sweater. I fell asleep in front of the television on election night and went to Miss Gross's fifth grade class the next morning with tears in my eyes...
...owned by the Minister of Interior and National Defense, Luckner Cambronne. The arrangement is more than coincidental. The Haiti statute provides specifically that one travel agency must be in charge of informing the Ministry of Justice of all divorce cases. Not surprisingly, Cambronne's outfit got the nod, and the resulting business...