Word: nods
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...fact, about the only thing that tips you off that Lorentzen is a freshman is the ’09 on the Harvard squash team roster—that and the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award she garnered in addition to the player of the year nod. Lorentzen’s success at the college level isn’t really a surprise, because while she was new to Harvard, she was hardly new to competitive squash. Accepted into the class of 2008, Lorentzen opted to take a year off to play internationally. A four-time under...
...drawn up my own lineup hours in advance during soccer season. Our league held four-quarter games, and every player had to participate in at least three. I had rather strong opinions on who should sit and when, which I never failed to share. He’d invariably nod and laugh before gently breaking the news that, no, we could not forget to invite the sub-par members of our team to that weekend’s contest, even if first place was on the line.And whether we were in season or not, there was always room...
...continued onto the NCAA Championships in Atlanta. Cromwell continued his run of outstanding performances with a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke, breaking his personal best and the league record with a time of 1:41.83. He also received his fifth individual and seventh overall All-American nod. “Dave just swam lights out,” Rathgeber said. “It was nice to see an Ivy swimmer up there with national champions and Olympians.” Harvard finished the season 22nd in the season’s final College Swim Coaches Association...
...food person to eat it," says General Mills CEO Steve Sanger. Yoplait had to convince Americans that they would love its signature creamy texture, but it also had to keep its marketing from diving too deeply into the froufrou. Mills positioned Yoplait's brand, with a wink and a nod, around French culture and used marketing techniques equally foreign to the early '80s such as hot-air balloons and vans parked at marathons for tastings. "'Real Americans,' guys like Jack Klugman and Tommy Lasorda, would eat this stuff with a skeptical look and then burst into French extolling its virtues...
...John Paul may very well get the nod even faster, especially if all the prayers have a say. On Friday evening, the new pope encouraged young people in Krakow to continue their ritual of praying for John Paul's sainthood the second day of every month, at the hour of his death, saying that the ritual "supports those working on his Cause." Benedict told the crowd Saturday in the central square of Wadowice that he will be praying that John Paul's sainthood comes "soon." That got big cheers from the hometown crowd, chants of "We Thank You! We Thank...