Word: nip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year at Annapolis the Crimson came from a length and a half behind to nip the Quakers by two seconds and retain the Cup. Navy, too, has lost to the Tigers, and also to Cornell and Columbia...
...first period was nip and tuck; the Green and White went ahead in the opening minutes, but Curtis soloed and tied the game. Again Deerfield scored, but Aiello got that one back by flipping in a loose ball. The visitor's counted twice more, however, and the quarter ended...
Whenever the price takes a nip-up, there is a wild scramble in the offices of Lewis & Peat, the world's largest rubber brokers, whose daily turnover frequently reaches $90 million. In the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank's new million-dollar, air-conditioned office, an hour's business will see clerks and tellers chest-deep in bank notes...
...half minutes Saturday at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden the Crimson mile relay quartet won and lost a race. In an almost exact repeat of the previous weekend's win at the Boston Garden, anchor man Ronnie Berman came from about 12 yards behind to nip Dartmouth's Dave Krivitzky at the tape, only to find that the Crimson had already been disqualified on a foul...
While Scotland Yard, aided by the professor's daughter and his young colleague, directs a nip & tuck hunt for the man and his bomb, the cabinet secretly orders the machinery of evacuation oiled up. Rumor gives the public a bad case of war jitters. Then, crowded by the professor's deadline, the Prime Minister shares the secret with the people in a tense radio talk. Troops and civil defense workers take over the city; packing only what belongings they can carry by hand, London's millions queue up resolutely to roll out in all directions...