Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nick of Time. In Point Pleasant, W.Va., despondent Victor Bradshaw tried to stab himself to death, got the knife part way in, fell down dead of a heart attack...
Swarthy, stocky Napoleon Zervas, soldier of fortune and Greek Minister of Public Order, charged that the Communists had a detailed plot, known by the code name "Plan F," for sabotage and seizure of Government posts. His predawn raids, said Zervas, had been in the nick of time. The plot had been timed to support Russia at the United Nations; there Russia's Andrei Gromyko last week opposed the U.S. plan to set up a permanent border commission to watch Greece's northern frontiers...
...guests began to ask questions again: "Who's this lunch for? What's it all about?'' Even Nick Carey, the FTC's elderly publicity man, shrugged: "I wish I knew...
...Ford Motor Co. last week ended a three-year-old experiment with a foreman's union. The experiment, said Ford, had "failed hopelessly." The company withdrew its recognition of the independent Foreman's Association of America, whose six-week strike against Ford had hardly put a nick in production. The company stated that it had originally signed an F.A.A. contract-the first in the auto industry-in hopes of making the foremen a more effective part of management. Instead, relations had become so bad that the company now felt that such unions were "unsound in principle...
...Which is highly developed, but far short of the form once shown by Diamond Comedian Nick Altrock. In a single game (1901), Southpaw Altrock walked eight batters, picked seven of them off first base...