Word: nip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk to boys." The boys are usually busy talking to a pet moose or rocketing off to the moon. But at least, the cautionary yarns of the brush-your-teeth-or-mommy-won't-love-you variety seem to be on the wane. So are humorless educative nip-ups of the A-is-for-aspidistra, B-is-for-bathy-sphere order...
VARSITY TRACK is host to Dartmouth and Brown in the stadium in what is expected to be one of the top track meets of the New England season. The triangular affair should be a nip-and-tuck arrangement for Brown and Dartmouth, and a cinch for the Crimson...
Bowditch and Sullivan have been nip and tuck for the top ranking so far this Spring, and may well spend the rest of the season unsuccessfully trying to prove that one of them has a clear-cut superiority over the other. Sullivan secured the first spot for the Southern trip with a victory over his opponent in the fall practice sessions, but since then Bowditch has been doing slightly better against the same opponents. He finally pasesd Sullivan this week. Bowditch's game makes good use of a powerful service, and should improve as the weather warms up. Sullivan also...
Under such conditions, Sellers decides, it should not be too difficult to lark out, pick up the packet, and nip back with a perfect alibi before the warden knows he is gone. But just before he can put his plan into effect, the friendly old turnkey is replaced by Sergeant Sidney ("Sour") Crout, who is notoriously "the most wickid screw what ever crep' down a prison corridor." Best scene occurs in a prison quarry, where an "accidental" blast blows Sergeant Crout to comical tatters and leaves him staring at the audience with an expression like...
...Nip at the Bottle. For twelve hours the chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated by the deeper thud of shells from Congolese armored cars. Pitch-darkness and bad marksmanship limited the casualties to one Tunisian and four Congolese dead, eleven Tunisians and 30 Congolese wounded. With morning, firing finally stopped, and British General Henry Alexander, commander in chief of the Ghanaian army, appeared...