Word: nodding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...With a nod to Williams, who was seated placidly at the cash register, Durham said that he would miss the “friendly staff” of Celeris...
...think you usually have to be No. 1 or 2 in the lineup to get [a first-team nod],” said Wang, Harvard’s typical No. 3. “But even though it’s not my regular spot I played that a couple of times...
...Crimson had clinched an NCAA berth 10 days before, when the squad claimed at least a share of the Ivy title—the crown might have been shared with Brown at the time, but Harvard had defeated the Bears and thus would earned the NCAA’s nod...
...nothing more than an hour's footage of a really handsome, really famous footballer fast asleep. And that's enough for those of us in Room 41. Our thoughts are full of the beauty of Beckham, and the creamy blue light bathing his torso. His golden shoulder may nod to the classical statues of the gods, but we mortal women gaze, moonfaced, at the soft flicker of his eyelashes. He licks his lips and scrabbles at the crucifix around his neck, he moves his hand and the row of bands and bracelets around his wrist shuffle like waiting footmen - nothing...
...designers gave a nod to pimp fashion, an archetype of blaxploitation, in a sequence with bare-chested men reveling in the adulation of mini-skirted vixens. The segment’s tone was slightly marred by the off-putting notion that a production conscientiously pushing for racial diversity did little to challenge the film industry’s manipulative portrayal of African-Americans in the 1960s...