Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those last three bouts belonged to Harvard. John Williams (177 lbs.), who has won a starting nod ahead of Fred Smith (2-6-1), tied his foe in knots, 8-0. Sal D'agostino, sliding up a weight in the lineup, ran his perfect record to 9-0 with his sixth pin of the year...
...House, Senate Majority Leader Byrd and House Speaker Tip O'Neill complained that he was not consulting them enough. They were especially miffed that their advice had not been sought on energy policy. "Obviously we should do that, and we will do it," said Carter softly-with a nod to Frank Moore, his chief of congressional liaison. Moore was criticized during the transition period for not touching enough bases on Capitol Hill and not returning Congressmen's phone calls...
...social gesture? According to Sociologist Murray Davis, of the University of California at San Diego, "Increased kissing is part of the general inflation of intimate signals. We kiss people we used to hug, hug people we used to shake hands with, and shake hands with people we used to nod to." Not to kiss or hug means one is "not relating." "Isolated individualism is out." says Davis. "Today separations are not allowed. Everyone is expected to kiss everyone else." The human-potential movement has occasionally made a travesty of E.M. Forster's "Only connect!" From the hot tubs...
...this show the strength of its music and a few good actors will always drive audiences to happy nostalgia for a time they never knew. The one thing that has been genuinely improved here is the end: the show has never closed so benignly or with such a nice nod to nature before...
This time around, however, Puopolo got the starting nod. "I won the job in camp," he said the other day. "It came down to the last five minutes before the opening game until I knew. If I hadn't started, I would have been a little disappointed, but I'm not sure at whom, myself or the coaches...