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Word: nicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky's retreat came in the nick of time. Last week's Gallup polls showed the Vice President well ahead and gaining when matched against either the Democrats' first runner, Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, or the noncampaigning ghostly challenger, Adlai Stevenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Poll Vaulting | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Ernest Hemingway wrote The Killers before breakfast one morning in 1927, cabled it that day from Madrid to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, at Scribner's Magazine in New York, and has never changed one of its 2,000 words. Seen through the eyes of Nick Adams (i.e., young Hemingway), it is a brief, spare story that tells-mostly in a well-wrought ladder of dialogue-about two hired gunmen who have come to a small Michigan town to rub out a doublecrossing Swedish prizefighter. When The Killers appeared on CBS's Buick Electra Playhouse last week, the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Killers Done to Death | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Nick Adams, Dean Stockwell gave the impression that he had learned The Method at Hotchkiss, but Dane Clark and Robert Middleton were smooth and competent as the killers, and so was Ray Walston as the frightened owner of the lunchroom in which the killers reveal their plot. Beyond the brief Hemingway dialogue, the show was distinguished only by the Swedish fighter. In a flashback to a Chicago gym, where he was coached in the art of taking a dive, and in the scene from the original, in which he decided that he is "through with all that running" from death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Killers Done to Death | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

After the 21-21 tie in 1954, Brown triumphed, 14 to 6, in 1955, and 21 to 12, in 1956. In 1957, Harvard absorbed its worst licking at the hands of a Bruin eleven. Behind quarterbacks Frank Finney and Nick Pannes, today's starter, Brown scored early and often against an outclassed and injury-ridden Crimson eleven. The final score was Brown 33, Harvard...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Leads, 42--14, In Rivalry With Brown | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

...evidence that religion in Russia is alive is provided by one of the latest Soviet novels to reach the West (via an Italian translation). The Miraculous Icon is a 19th century moral tale in reverse: hero sinks down and down into the depths of Christianity, is saved in the nick of time by conversion to clear-eyed atheism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mr. G. in the U.S.S.R. | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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