Word: nods
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...small step forward. It's not a big step." Complained Florida's Lawton Chiles, ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee: "Our problem is not the budget process. It's the absence of will." Congress, said Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, had gone "from winking to blinking to nod." For his part, Reagan promised to keep up the fight against letting new taxes creep into the budget. "You didn't send us to Washington to feed the alligators," he said in his Saturday radio broadcast. "You sent us to drain the swamp...
...asked about my godson, who had just begun his freshman year at Wake Forest, where he was hoping against hope for a walk-on nod from the terrific baseball program there. Bo had been at two or three of the recent post-season games, as had his mom, and was a true-blue Red Sox devotee...
Junior Michele McAteer, still coping with injuries to her pitching arm and elbow, got the starting nod for Harvard and went three strong innings, allowing three hits and one run before departing with the contest tied...
Grumet-Morris, who recorded the best season for a goaltender in Harvard hockey history, adds his Second Team All-American pick to a shelf that already includes the Walter Brown Award, an All-New England MVP distinction, and a Second Team All-ECAC nod...
...laughs. “Sometimes the rooming stuff—who gets to room together. Then I decide whether we’re going to get pizza delivered to the room. Coach usually gives me a couple of options and I just go ahead and give him the nod for the best...