Word: nick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desperation I was hastily asked to help supply some puns or a story line for autobiographical song--this time it was based on the phrase "Damn the torped os--full speed ahead!" but I woefully admitted that nothing came immediately to mind. Happily, it was contrived in the nick of time that a macho guy and his squirmy girlfriend would exchange rings in a submarine shop and thereupon proceed to satisfy their natural urges...
There are other bouquets. At one point Spenser even calls himself Nick Charles to relieve the tedium of an inquiry. His Boston office, a block or so away from the infamous bar in George Higgins' The Friends of Eddie Coyle, could be Philip Marlowe's in Los Angeles: "Second floor front, one room with a desk file cabinet and two chairs in case Mrs. Onassis came in with her husband, mail slot and pile of mail." L.A. has long been the culture capital of suspense fiction. Boston may now be moving up. In Parker's God Save...
Phillippe Bennett turned in the best performance of the day as he triumphed in all three of his bouts. Larry White came close as he took two bouts. While Nick Tepe took the last of the bouts for the fencers...
Bennett did beat his other Brandeis opponent however, by a handy 5-1 advantage. In the other foil bouts Nick Lepe who took Major's place turned in a strong 2-1 performance. Larry White was also 2-1, and Revnaldo Draz won his only bout of the evening...
Phillipps Bennett, Larry White and Nick Tepe will compete in the foil today for Harvard, while Gordon Rutledge, Lorry Tu and Major will fence in the sabre...