Word: nods
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With sophomore shortstop Sean O’Hara out with a knee injury, Walsh chose to give the nod to senior Jon Roberts—in left field that is. So while Roberts got the opportunity to field balls off the Green Monster, everyday left fielder Rogers was moved to shortstop...
...outs - The runner on first steals second. Senior catcher Jared Wortzman, getting a rare starting nod, fires the ball into center field but shortstop Sean O'Hara [Correction: Matt Rogers] backs up nicely to prevent the run. Could be some Fenway jitters for Wortzman, who's a big-time...
...many ambiguities frustrate that impulse. Morisset, who helped shape the viral marketing blitz for “Neon Bible,” struggles stylistically. “Miroir Noir” often adopts a vérité approach. The final scene’s a nod to online indie concert series Black Cab Sessions, and many scenes capture the band members in the middle of rehearsals and downtime, in hopes of emulating the free-wheeling performances captured by Paris-based La Blogotheque’s Take-Away Shows. Yet the band members never let their guard down?...
...engaged was Fujimori in the details of operating the government he had taken over in 1990, in fact, that a special Peruvian tribunal has now concluded that it's hard to believe he didn't also give the nod to a military death squad that massacred civilians during his rule. As a result, Fujimori was convicted on Tuesday of being the "indirect perpetrator" of at least 25 murders and two kidnappings in the early 1990s, at the start of his ultimately successful campaign to stamp out Tupac Amaru and the even more bloodthirsty Maoist rebels known as Sendero Luminoso...
...spend in the shopping mall, which Böhm envisions as "a modern souk with the quality of the traditional souk." The mosque's prayer hall consists of shells of textured concrete connected by glass panels, to create "ideological and architectural transparency," says Böhm. Far from a nod to tradition, the minarets are a declaration that the building is "not a sports hall, a concert hall or a museum, but a mosque...