Word: nip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity lacrosse team faces M.I.T. today they will be a little weaker than the team that bested the Engineers by 12 goals a year ago, while the Engineers are certain to field a much stronger team. The result may well lead to what coach Bruce Munro terms a "nip and tuck game situation...
Time was when those seeking relief from subtitled and "award-winning" Brattle fare could nip across Massachusetts Avenue and plunk down ninety cents for a relaxing and refreshingly unintellectual Rock Hudson twin-bill...
...portly Press Secretary Pierre Salinger lose a good deal more. He swims twice a day in the heated White House pool, has taken up a rigorous series of calisthenics under the direction of New York University's Dr. Hans Kraus to help his ailing back. He does his nip-ups in the White House gym, in his bedroom, even on board the big presidential jet while flying off to important meetings...
Hurt by the loss of Winkey Davenport, the Cardinal's top scorer who sat out with an injury, Wesleyan put up a strong nip-and-tuck battle with the Crimson in the first ten minutes, but slowly plummeted behind as coach Floyd Wilson poured on a high-powered attack during the remainder of the game...
...episode in Catch-22 is told and retold. With each telling, some new detail, some further revelation is dangled like a carrot for the reader who reads on and on until he feels like "The Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice" (the ironic title of one chapter). Heller fights a nip-and-tuck battle with the twin temptations of redundance and abundance, succumbs shamelessly to blatant gag writing until much of his dialogue resembles an old Smith & Dale vaudeville sketch ("Why can't you marry me?" "Because you're crazy." "Why am I crazy?" "Because you want to marry...