Word: nip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poles caught driving while tiddly not only face jail and fines but must attend lectures that damn the old devil drink. In Czechoslovakia, the crackdown is aimed as much at those who sell booze to drivers as at the drivers themselves; a Czech motorist in search of a nip must thus park his auto well away from the tavern and make his approach by foot. West Germany's ten years of breath testing by police has given rise to a new industry that produces lozenges and mouth sprays to mask alcoholic fumes in the breath...
That accounts for Bus's discomfiture the day when he was 15 and a lass named Ethel crewed for him in a nip-and-tuck race. "The finish was so close I couldn't tell who had won," Bus remembers. "The other fellow called over to the committee boat to find out the results, but I couldn't hear what they told him. So I yelled 'Nice race!' And when he answered Thank you,' I assumed he had won. Next thing I knew, Ethel was standing up, shaking her fist at the committee boat...
Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, 51, is a man of such nut-brown energy that he begins the day with assorted situps, nip-ups, bends, lifts, kicks, flutters, isometrics and 300 pushups. Neither these nor his labors in the Senate give him quite the exercise he craves. Last week a startled photographer caught the Senator in sweatshirt and tennis shorts midway through a brisk jog from home to work -a lung-flaying distance of 4.7 paved miles between Cleveland Park and Capitol Hill that Proxmire traces every morning, retraces every night. He covers the route in 35 minutes...
Cornell has traditionally been the crew-to-beat in the lightweight field. Their varsity is undefeated this year, and Harvard's coach Bo Andersen rates them "a little better than usual." He says the race will be "nip and tuck -- a real dog fight...
After losing 14 straight Ivy League contests over three seasons, the lacrosse team overcame a horrid first half to nip Dartmouth, 7-4, Saturday in sunny Hanover, New Hampshire...