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Word: nip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Vag cheering on the team from high on the fifty; Vag explaining the game; Vag shouting for Wintergreen; Vag taking a quick nip from his flask to celebrate a touchdown. Vag and Young Vag in the autumn sunset, following the Band out of the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/27/1951 | See Source »

...Rites of Fall On football Saturdays many a football fan finds a spot of cheer in a nip from a bottle or flask. This week, for the fastidious fan who does not like it neat-but wants it neater-an enterprising Texas firm will hawk a "Survival Kit" before the Rice-Clemson game. The kit: a plastic bag containing twelve ice cubes, three bottles of soda, six paper cups and a bottle opener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Rites of Fall | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...days & nights later. Tone was out and Neal was in. Neal spent the next month and a half lolling around Barbara's patio doing nip-ups with bar bells while Barbara gazed adoringly. The gallant Neal later told friends: "Barbara asked me to marry her. It wasn't the other way round. She said she was in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Pursuit of Happiness | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...mood to crow. By this week the Indians had won eleven straight, 38 of their last 47 games, had pulled themselves up from ten games off the pace to a lead of two and a half games over the New York Yankees in the nip & tuck American League pennant race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indian Sign | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...winning ball. It was in the peak of condition to meet the Blue on Soldiers Field. But hard-plunging Yale backs gave the visitors a 13-0 win in a driving rain. Hopelessly cheering until the last play, the man of '26 lighted up a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flask, snuggled a little deeper into his raccoon coat, and brought his date into Boston to see the smash hit of the day, Mr. John Galsworthy's "Loyalties...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Prohibition, Winning Football, Lowell Dispute Among Memories of 1926's First Three Terms | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

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