Word: nods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pointy-toed cowboy boots, all of which look out of place in this working man's, New England bar. One of the men at the bar glances over his shoulder. He elbows another. Then another. Soon all the men at the bar are glancing over their shoulders. They nod at the man in the vest, make their respectful greetings, then turn back to the light over...
...lost in the game. He leans toward the action, elbows on knees, and looks for things his contemporaries are oblivious to. He smiles every now and then at a comment by Summerall, as if Summerall had missed the point of a tackle, and once in a while, he will nod vigorously at something Summerall says, as if in total agreement. Sometimes something happens on the screen that causes Fran to make an abortive gesture in his chair, a twist of his shoulders, as if eluding a tackler, and suddenly he catches himself. He looks around sheepishly...
Sophomore Tom Yohe will probably get the nod at quarterback for the Crimson. Yohe--who left the Princeton game two weeks ago with a groin pull--watched from the sidelines last weekend as senior David Landau guided Harvard in its 31-19 loss to Brown. Landau completed 10 of 22 passes for 118 yards but threw an interception and fumbled three times...
Bennett also offered an attack on the Core Curriculum as a "symbolic nod, a head feint," in the direction of a true central educational core. When Bok confronted him on the issue, Bennett displayed a remarkable ignorance of the specifics of the core program. While he was able to crack that it is a "core lite," he failed to offer any specific commentary. Yet the Core does have its pitfalls, foremost among them the fact that the undergraduates it serves, like their Secretary of Education, don't understand its foundation. The Core's mission to teach students how to think...
With David Landau still nursing an injured shoulder, senior signal-caller Bill Koehler is likely to get the starting nod again from Crimson Coach Joe Restic...