Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line for Kopp's offensive team during the drill were lettermen Jim Fein-berg and Nick Rodis at the guards, Howie Houston at tackle, and John Florentino at end, with newcomer John Gorczynski adding punch at one of the tackle slots. Emil Dvaric shone on the defensive side of Kopp's lineup...
...partly grown out) stayed plastered down. In the semifinals, he met 34-year-old Sidney B. Wood Jr., onetime Wimbledon champion who now (with pro star Don Budge) runs a fashionable Manhattan laundry. Time & again Wood showed that he could still hit a perfect overhead while leaping backwards, still nick the sidelines with smoking passing shots. Wood's laundry customers, out in strength, applauded wildly...
...Manhattan, Brazil's magnetic, dyspeptic Oswaldo Aranha breathed easier and ate better. After scrutinizing 50 X-ray plates, specialists had found no trace of the ailment which has been troubling the former Ambassador to Washington. Aranha got the news in the nick of time. This week he is taking on a strenuous job: Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Security Council. During March, he will be the council's president...
...while they worked the mine of the U.S.'s more comfortable legends about itself, they worked it sometimes with real honesty and beauty. The literary data on life in the U.S. since 1900 would be as incomplete without Penrod and Alice Adams as it would be without Nick Adams and Jay Gatsby, Jennie Gerhardt and The Good Anna...
...coal strike-and its slow strangulation of industry-seemed to end in the time it takes to flick a switch. Railroads recalled most of some 25,000 furloughed workers, restored curtailed schedules, were back to nearly normal in two days. Across the U.S., in the nick of time, manufacturers canceled orders for mass layoffs of more than 750,000. The Ford Motor Co., which had laid off 20,000, promptly called them back. The other auto companies, turning out cars at a postwar peak of 96,519 cars a week, canceled their shutdown orders, kept producing almost without interruption...