Word: nip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARRIAGE SLOWDOWN will nip market for houses, furniture, etc. Dropping steadily since last August, marriage rate this year is about 10% below year ago. Reasons: low birth rate of Depression 1930s combined with today's economic slump and living-cost spiral...
...idea that a nip at the bottle may help to nip a cold, long popular with laymen, won medical support last week in the Archives of Otolaryngology. In the first stage of a cold, argued Chicago's Dr. Noah D. Fabricant, the nose is cold; its blood vessels contract, nasal passages become dry, and the stage is set for infection. At this time, said Dr. Fabricant, a jigger of whisky can raise the nose temperature and reverse the process...
...forced to split up if it has more than 35% of its industry's sales or only 25% if engaged in more than one industry. Since both Ford and G.M. are in several industries, they would each be eligible for only 25% of the auto industry. To nip what he called "union monopolies," Romney would split up big unions such as the U.A.W. In any basic industry, said he, the bargaining power should be lodged with unions "exclusively representing the employees of a single employer...
...raced the mile in ten months, but Australia's Herb Elliott, 19, grabbed an early lead in a race at Melbourne, sprinted through a spectacular 57.9-sec. last quarter to nip the 4-min. mile at 3:59.9, became the fourth Aussie (after John Landy, Jim Bailey and Mervyn Lincoln) to turn the trick...
...Bitten. Such excitement was merely the beginning. In the midst of the nip-and-tuck 1954 congressional campaign, Wilson remarked in Detroit, referring to laid-off auto workers: "I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself-you know, the one that will get out and hunt for his food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." This sent Democratic columnists, cartoonists, and labor leaders into paroxysms of protest. He addressd august congressional committeemen as "you men," dismissed a Capitol Hill boost in Air Force funds as "a phony." He called the Pentagon a "five...