Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exercise in futility. No sooner would the Government dislodge one unjust voting law than Southern legislatures would dream up another. "Then," says Nick Katzenbach, "you've got to bring suits to throw these out too. You've got to go all the way to the Supreme Court, and when you get that done, there's nothing to prevent them from coming up with something else...
Hashim, now a little slower than his nephew, but no less a shotmaker, varied the pace to hold Mohibulla back. He mixed drives and drops with his pet shot--a volley nick that just rools off the side wall...
...unforgettable 22-ft. by 12-ft. Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), the oil portrays a bigger than life-size scene of a crucial moment. On a scorching June day in 1778, Major General Charles Lee had ordered the Continental army to retreat before the redcoats. Then, in the nick of time, Washington, accompanied by a cockaded Alexander Hamilton and a bareheaded Marquis de Lafayette, gallops up to rally the troops and confound the crestfallen poltroon Lee,* slumping in his saddle. History records a piqued Washington demanding in Olympian tones: "I desire to know, sir, what is the reason, whence arises...
Terry Robinson's precise shotmaking was too much for Princeton's Jim Lemons, who succumbed 15-11, 15-10, 15-11. The number seven rivals, Todd Wilkinson and Nick Kourides, had both won all their previous matches by 3-0 scores. Only Harvard's Wilkinson could repeat it this time...
...walked into a pet shop and walked out with a black bear. A store in suburban Seattle is advertising a special on baby elephants (two for $9,998 and one free). A terrified Boston girl bought a five-foot indigo snake as a wedding gift for her fiance. Hunter Nick Del Duca, in Canyon City, Colo., has orders for six Colorado mountain lion cubs at $150 apiece, and can sell as many more as he can catch...