Word: nods
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...Tigers' sole nod to their lameness was hiring Mike Veeck, the son of Bill Veeck, the Hall of Fame owner who organized the disco-album bonfire at Comiskey Park in the '70s, to do their promotions. So they did have Duct Tape Night, Magic Night with illusionist Aaron Radatz, a Christian concert after an Angels game and Baseball Card Blitz, where kids under 15 got to trample one another on a field littered with 50,000 packs of baseball cards. But Veeck didn't go far enough. First of all, he should have removed the Tigers from those baseball-card...
Currently, sophomore Ryan Johnson— who is still feeling the effects of shoulder and calf injuries—is expected to get the starting nod on Wednesday...
Despite that statement, Kerr hinted that either Roth or Johnson would get the nod when they returns by criticizing Jones’ misplay which allowed URI’s goal during Sunday’s game...
Mystery Epidemic SUDAN The war-stricken south faces a new calamity: a disease whose first symptom is that victims (usually children) nod deeply and involuntarily when presented with food. "Nodding disease," as aid groups have dubbed the illness, progresses into seizures and stunted growth. "We consider this 100% fatal," says Ben Parker, spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Sudan. "Few survive into their twenties." Isolated and underdeveloped, the region is no stranger to exotic diseases, including river blindness and sleeping sickness. Missionaries first encountered nodding disease in 1997, but locals say it's been around since...
...Beijing almost certainly gave Tung the nod on his decision: its main concern was that anti-Tung (or anti-Beijing) parties might dominate the September 2004 elections for the Legislative Council, Hong Kong's lawmaking body. Hong Kong has given Beijing an unexpected lesson in Politics...