Word: nip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crimes remain crimes once committed, and Saturday night added a final theft to the season, as Brown's Lloyd Desvigne sank a game-winning jump shot at the buzzer to nip the Crimson, 56-54, and deprive Harvard of a .500 season for the first time in four years. Tom Sanders's squad finishes 11-13 and fourth in the Ivy League...
...suit was typical of Nader's activities in recent years. He sees his role as "not just disclosure any more, but follow-up with lawsuits and other actions." To do that, he has assembled a pack of consumerist organizations that nip at the heels of top dogs in both business and government. His Public Citizen, Inc., for example, supports four young lawyers who have peppered the government with lawsuits. In one they are attempting to force the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration -ironically, an agency created in response to Nader's prodding-to release used-car safety standards...
...They rowed an extremely intelligent and sophisticated race," an ebullient John Baker said of his Radcliffe squad after the contest. "We were nip and tuck with Williams the first half, but we didn't break under the pressure of a close race and moved out steadily in the last 500," the coach added...
...preceding races had been nip and tuck and the stage was set for, the varsity race by Princeton's even narrower victory over the Crimson J.V. Harvard's second boat stayed even with the Tigers off the line and up to the 1000 meter mark where the Crimson took a power 20 and moved out on Princeton by two seats...
...Nip in the trees is a notch in his gun." This line, an advertising slogan for the Camel cigarette people, appeared more than once in the Service News...