Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father of SPB's President John Marion, once cautioned: "Women who use then- catalogues to salute late-coming friends do so at their peril." In practice, a buyer who wishes to remain anonymous prearranges his signals with the auctioneer. Thus a bid may be wigwagged by a nod, a wink, a patted handkerchief, a crooked finger, an arched eyebrow. Says one Manhattan auctioneer of a prominent patron: "When he turns his back on me with a cigar in his mouth and walks away, that means he's bidding...
Brown opened the scoring at 27:56 after a similar muddle in front of the Harvard net. First sweeper Peter Sergienko, then a number of other Harvard backs failed to clear the ball, giving Brown's Tom Gertken time to nod it past Harvard keeper Billy Blood. The tally was the first scored against Blood in over nine halves...
...slate is also largely composed of council candidates who have taken stands against continued rent controls, with three notable exceptions. David Wylie, Francis Duehay, and challenger Alvin Thompson, all endorsed by the progressive Cambridge Civic Association, were also given the nod...
...would be a neglect of the obvious to write about America without mentioning Tocqueville, or Africa without a nod to Conrad. Those authors are not only fixed points to steer by but fetishes that protect a writer from foundering in swamps of detail. Edward Hoagland does not get around to his ritual reference until page 91 of African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan: "Far from learning something new about the black-white torque that is such a misery in America, here I was freer of it. But the other reason why I had come to Africa, instead...
Despite the recent official nod of recognition, many students remain skeptical about the assembly's effectiveness. Students credit the assembly with securing free toilet paper for all students next year and holding disco dances, but many say they are disappointed with the assembly's overall performance...