Word: nip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something to Live For (Paramount) casts Ray Milland as a reformed alcoholic who might be having a hangover from his Lost Weekend. An advertising man who has not touched liquor in 14 months, Milland is toying with the idea of just one nip. A duty call from an organization something like Alcoholics Anonymous sends him to the aid of promising Actress Joan Fontaine, who has taken to the bottle because she is afraid of facing a Broadway opening night. Milland's interest in her progresses, of course, from the clinical to the romantic. But since he is happily married...
...After a nip-and-tuck first half, a smooth-working Yardling five collected a tidy 76 to 60 win over the Dartmouth freshmen at the Blockhouse last night...
...Ogle, whom many of you will remember from our Kefauver telecasts, appeared to have the highest incidence of nip-ups and pratfalls. Since taking charge of our Denver bureau in March, he has been bucked off a horse, bounced out of a plane, fallen on by a Christmas tree and had his face rubbed sportively in a snowbank by a gang of high-school football players...
Drinking can definitely be correlated with marks and amount of time spent on study, if Pugh's results are correct. The social, light-heavy, and heavy drinkers usually take a nip after an exam. Unfortunately, Pugh did not ask how many drank before exams...
Everybody had known that the excess-profits tax, and the retroactive boost in the new tax bill, would nip profits. But few realized how deep the bite would be until G.E.'s President Ralph Cordiner last week provided the first blue-chip example. G.E., which had set aside $38.5 million for taxes in last year's third quarter, this year had to set aside $59 million to take care of a retroactive boost to Jan. i. As a result, in spite of a $36 million gain in sales, G.E.'s net ($15.6 million) was less than half...