Word: nip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Hugh Scott to watch Scott's tally sheet. On the Democratic side of the aisle, John F. Kennedy sat somber-faced, his chin propped on one hand, his other hand nervously fiddling with a pencil. It was the most dramatic scene of Congress' postscript session: the nip-and-tuck roll call on the Kennedy-backed proposal to provide compulsory medical care for the aged...
Divorced. Willie ("The Shoe") Shoemaker, 29, the nation's leading jockey in an unprecedented five of his eleven seasons of riding, and presently in a nip-and-tuck battle for 1960 honors with Willie Hartack; by Virginia Shoemaker, 25; after ten years of marriage, two adopted children; in Los Angeles...
Pontiacs, though still wide-tracked, will also be shortened. Even Cadillac will nip inches off the length of most models. The functional lines of the compacts will be reflected in big-car styling, although Cadillac will stick with its fins. The new look will feature rolled edges and soft curves, with the trend away from bigness and sharp-flaring, winglike fenders. The public is expected to be pleased-but the industry also has its own economy in mind. Detroit makes less profit on the compacts than on standard-size cars, and sells fewer additional gadgets on them. By reducing...
...Such regulatory groups as the Texas Railroad Commission make a concerted effort to prevent flooded markets by limiting production (a method that has prevented any real oil glut in the U.S.), thus in effect helping to keep up prices. The foreign oil-producing nations frown on price cuts, which nip at oil profits. Venezuela recently stopped three U.S. independents from selling Lake Maracaibo crude at $1.50 to $2 per bbl. when the posted price...
Under Holman's attack, another former A.B.A. president, North Carolina's Charles Rhyne (TIME cover. May 5, 1958) began quietly to nip the assault. His strategy: pigeonhole the Holman resolution in Rhyne's own Committee on World Peace through Law. It worked. After Malone's speech and others, the question came to a vote, wound up with a ringing 127-68 defeat for Holman and an added push for repeal of the Connally Reservation...