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Word: nip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court tennis team will begin its annual intrasquad round-robin at the Tennis and Racquet Club next week, in preparation for its only match, the H-Y-P intercollegiate tournament in the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York on March 9. Captain Randy Hackett and Ed Harding are nip and tuck for the top position. The team will definitely be favored to take the tourney for the third straight year...

Author: By The CITY Editor, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...pulls head right dead in front of my saw," as Andersen describes his work. "I say 'Woh!' when the part I want for first cut is opposite my blade. It is just behind the middle of head. I turn down saw, zuff-zuff, then I stop saw. nip in quick and grab the gland-messy purple and hard like rock-on edge of brain. I grab, twist and pull like hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Of Whales & Glands | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...previous Councils. The trouble lay more in what it failed to do, the fields which it did not consider. To solve this problem, we recommend a little emphasis on originality and less on "campus politicking." Or, if you will, if the clam juice runs a little short, a little nip of brandy neat might do the trick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "... and the Democrats in 1924" | 1/9/1957 | See Source »

...Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle with Cliff Young, Democratic Incumbent Alan Bible spurted ahead, eked out a breathless victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Near Balance | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Yale high-scoring trio, worked, as both Jim Schlaeppi and Dave Norris finished ahead of Kingston, behind Bogan and Hogen. But Friedman, running one of his best races of the season, finished right behind Norris, and Slowik unleashed a tremendous finishing kick in the last 100 yards to nip Captain Dave McLean by a couple of steps for the eighth position. Ralph Perry finished right behind McLean to complete the varsity scoring...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Yale Snaps Harrier Skein at 19 In 26-29 Triumph Over Crimson | 11/3/1956 | See Source »

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