Word: nickering
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Reagan waited nearly four hours for a nicker of flexibility, any tiny gesture of accommodation. None came. Once Gromyko was recalling how it was back...
...every couple of years, the businessman-of-crime known as the Scarperer makes enough to live the life of a gent of leisure. This time the trick is trickier. The client is a toff London tough lodged in Dublin's Mountjoy penitentiary, and the price is 5,000 nicker. But when the limey is sprung by the Scarperer's guileful crew, he finds himself the victim of a Gaelic doublecross. The Scarperer has arranged to have him drowned and his body washed up on the coast of France. The implausible explanation: he closely resembles a richer client...
...Stretch, Sellers plays a "wide boy" (small-time crook) who has a chance to "hoist . . . a coupla million nicker" (steal ?2,000,000) but unfortunately finds himself "in boob" (in jail). Fortunately, Jailbird Sellers inhabits a gilded cage that contains a radio, a wine cellar, a fully equipped kitchen, a cuckoo clock, an amiable tabby. Milk and papers are delivered every morning by the local tradesmen. The turnkey knocks timidly before entering and walks the cat upon request. Morning massage by a cellmate is followed by classes in basket weaving, fretwork and (when the warden looks the other way) safe...
...topic on the agenda, why did anyone expect much on disarmament? The hopeful signs were few. Delegates from the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union have been meeting for a year in Geneva to negotiate a treaty banning nuclear-weapons tests. Early last week there was a nicker of progress. Soviet Conference Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin launched into a 45-minute attack on towering (6 ft. 4 in.) U.S. Ambassador James Wadsworth. According to Tsarapkin, Wadsworth's insistence that Russia must agree to study U.S. data on the difficulties of long-range detection of underground nuclear tests was a clear...
...life. Because of his broken collarbone he was spared the exhausting sessions in the water during the early days of the trip. More important still: "I early adopted a mood of passivity." Most important of all: "I was determined not to die . . . The body can always summon the last nicker of energy. But it has to be dictated by a refusal to accept death, a determination not to die, a knowledge that one was not meant to end like this...