Word: nip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open wide; then blood goes pounding through with extra force. Remedies: 1) a calm life; 2) abstention from annoying foods; 3) aspirin tablets, benzedrine, black coffee or ducking in cold water for mild cases. If a patient can scent it in advance, a dose of the drug gynergen will nip a migraine headache in the bud; once the throbbing begins, this medicine is useless. Gynergen often produces jitters, vomiting, circulatory disturbances in the fingers and toes. Oxygen inhalations "often work miraculously" but must be taken in a doctor's office or hospital for an hour...
...Peddie and Gerry Davis at one and two accounted for the other two Crimson tallies. Peddie saw his one up lead disappear when he three putted the eighteenth green but came back to nip Bill Paine of Brown on the first extra hole. Harvard took the best ball in the first foursome by a 2-1 count, but Davis lost...
Although the play was nip and tuck in the first half, the Crimson fifteen capitalized on its scoring opportunities and Bobbie Green and Captain "Cowboy Bill" Waters scored a try apiece. In the second half the L.I.U. scrum returned with a threatening ferociousness and aggressiveness, but Sid Cabot's ruggers stood pat and returned with a scoring drive that netted two more tries made by Dick Simpson and Tom Mountain after a sparkling 50 yard run. Wally DeWitt added four points to the afternoon's total with two conversions...
Pleased with the scare, the British gave a further nip to American adrenals by announcing that Germany's two powerful battle cruisers, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (each 26,000 tons, each faster and better-armed than the late pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec), were indeed at large and as far west as the 42nd meridian. Displeased with the scare, the Axis press nevertheless aggravated it by jubilating at the alleged sinking of the first shipload of U. S. armaments bound for Britain under the Lend-Lease...
...prudes, the bakers' engineers have no objection to an occasional nip at the hotel bar or a bottle in their rooms, but since 1931 they have ruled out mass alcoholism. Explained Secretary Victor E Marx: "Most of the men who come to this meeting are employes. If the boss hears that the convention is nothing but a grand party, they may not come again." Marveled the hotel's President William Dewey: "It just goes to show what can be accomplished when a convention is not hampered by indulgence and late hours...