Word: nick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain Nick Estabrook, wrestling in the 137-pound division, is the only senior in the starting lineup and one of five seniors on the 17-man squad. He is joined by other returning lettermen, although just one of these is on the first string with...
...choked the plane's engines. As if to underscore their findings, an Eastern Airlines DC-8 jet struck a flock of birds last week as it taxied for a take-off from Boston's Logan International Airport, slammed to a stop on the runway only in the nick of time. Alarmed, Logan authorities established roving bands of shotgun-armed guards who have orders to shoot at birds on sight...
Close behind Laris in this afternoon's scoring will be teammate Nick Jennison. Just how close he is will be a big factor in determining the winning team: a one-two finish by either Laris and Jennison or the Crimson's Mark Mullein and captain Jed Fitzgerald could easily swing the total sooring...
...scene is London, and Nick Jenkins is still the sad Seeing-Eye dog for a troupe (if that can be imagined) of comic blind men. Stringham, a once-brilliant fellow and his close friend at school, is now under virtual house arrest as an alcoholic by his sister's former governess. Widmer-pool, a great comic creation who represents Business in Powell's mind, has soared to the skirts of Mrs. Simpson's "set." The Tolland family, whose head is Lord Warminster, illustrates the vast confusion of the British ruling class at the time. ("I haven...
...Observation. What of the future of The Music of Time? It may confidently be predicted that deaths in the cast of characters will be more frequent. They are getting no younger, and besides, they cannot all come through the war with a whole skin. Will we learn anything about Nick's marriage to Isobel Tolland except that she had a miscarriage? How will "Chips" Lovell get on with Priscilla Tolland? The addicted reader can hardly wait. Meanwhile it would seem to be a safe bet that Narrator Nick Jenkins will be commissioned, like Author Powell, in a posh regiment...