Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still objected to the whole notion. But White House and Paris officials agree that the nuclear issue had no substantial bearing on Gavin's resignation. Declared a White House aide: "The President wants ambassadors to report their true feelings. There was never any break, not even a nick, in the personal confidence of the President in Gavin." Insists Gavin: "There is no tie-in between my departure and national nuclear policy−none whatever. I am fully behind the President in his nuclear policy vis-å-vis France and Europe...
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. There is nostalgically charming Americana in this reel-life pastiche fashioned from Hemingway's autobiographical Nick Adams stories. Paul Newman's portrayal of a punch-drunk old fighter is a memorable acting coup...
...convinced me of the statistical advantage and therefore talked me into jumping is Nick Soutter, a junior from Dedham who lives in Adams House. He has done more to promote sport parachuting at Harvard than all other skydivers at the College have done since 1957, when the Crimson won this country's first intercollegiate parachute tournament...
...wait until the last minute, when I'm about five feet away," he says, and when he barrels into the base in an explosion of dust, no one knows which hand or elusive toe will reach out to nick the bag. Yet he goes in for none of the spikes-high, chop-up-the-baseman kind of slide that marked Ty Cobb's style (Cobb once received 13 threatening letters from angry fans after slashing Philadelphia's famed "Home Run" Baker). In his major league career, the mild-mannered Wills has never hurt an opposing player...
Frank Olsen unhooked his belt, crawled inside, and hurried across the street. In the battered cage lay Nick Szczerba, 45, Fladgit Grover Zunk, 39, and Ulysses Johnson, 30-all dead. The fourth, Edmund Botelko, 37, was still moaning, but he died on the way to the hospital...