Word: nip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fence, David and Jerry came upon an odd object, picked it up, dropped it; there was a shattering explosion. The boys were hurled to the ground, their bodies riddled with fragments from the bazooka shell they had found. Rocky the dog was dead. In the hospital it was nip & tuck, but the boys pulled through eventually, though Jerry lost three toes, and both David's legs were amputated above the knee. That...
...Yardlings also came from behind to nip the Yale freshmen, 6 to 5, for their 15th victory in 16 starts. Captain Bill Cleary scored the winning goal--his 72nd point of the season
While the drop in agricultural products would nip farm incomes slightly, the drop in the cost of food would bring consumer expenditures nearer the balance they held before World War II sent spending on food v. industrial products soaring. As the food budget dropped, consumers would be able to spend more on industrial products. And in manufacturing, there was no sign of a letup in demand. In the kingpin steel industry, Big Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless reported his company had a 20-week backlog, one of the biggest in its history at this time of year. There...
CONTROLS. To stop future inflationary rises, the new Administration plans to rely chiefly on indirect FRB fiscal controls, which strike at the monetary roots of inflation, rather than wage & price ceilings, which merely try to nip the flowers. Republicans in Congress also want to keep direct controls - at least on some sort of stand-by basis. Eisenhower has a strong argument to persuade Congress to restore FRB's power to control installment buying, housing credit, etc. Since these curbs were removed in May, consumer credit has shot up $3 billion to $23 billion at year's end. Said...
Bloodhounds of Broadway has some fast Runyonesque patter and a couple of spry tunes. Mitzi Gaynor brings a pert personality and youthful sparkle to her singing, dancing and acting, while the dog stars, Mister and Blondie, a pair of bloodhounds cast in the title roles of Nip & Tuck, are a howl with their own particular brand of doleful dramatics...