Word: nicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wimbledon is back in business again. Last week Queen Mary and 5,000 other tennis 'fans went to England's famed, bomb-struck stadium to see a match between U.S. and British Empire service teams. It was only a feeble nicker of the gaudy past, but there was a sprinkling of former Davis Cup players to bring back memories. Sergeant Charles Hare, a Briton who is now in the U.S. Army, teamed with Sergeant George Lott for one American victory. The best tennis of the day was played by Staff Sergeant Bob Harmon, who won his singles match...
When does an employer's expression of anti-union opinions become intimidation of employes? Into one of the dimmest corners of the cavernous Wagner Act the Supreme Court last week cast a small nicker of light...
...other death was added to the toll of 19 when it was learned later that the watchman on the barge had been knocked into the sea by the collision. For Boston's fishing fleet it was the worst disaster since the foundering of the schooner Eleanor Nicker son, in 1932, when 22 men drowned in the stormy north Atlantic...
...pleasure with which non-stop readers of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse sometimes curdle the late night air above pent and country houses. Aldous Huxleyans and Evelyn Waughans smile from time to time with irony and pity, but their eyelids are a little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master's illimitable spell just as simply...