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Word: nip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After joking with the audience, pretending to forget his lines and periodically stopping for a quick nip, Martin gave the floor over to the enthusiastic Sinatra...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Sinatra, Martin Perform For Reagan | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...could that dreaded month when the bubble burst and the world plunged into a decade-long recession recur exactly 50 years later? Many conditions today look frighteningly similar to those of late 1929. Then the panic was spawned by the Federal Reserve's attempt to nip speculation by raising the discount rate a full percentage point from 5% to 6%. The nation's banks in 1929 had built up a pyramid of foreign debt. National City Bank judged that Peru had a "bad debt record, adverse moral and political risk, bad internal debt situation"-and then lent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Could the Great Crash of '29 Recur? | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...months, off work with a stroke. The altar pleases him; the thought that demonstrators may march on the Common scares him. Graying on the sides like middle-aged cops are supposed to, he worries about the day ahead. "One little thing can set people off," he explains. "You gotta nip it just before it gets out of hand." Another cop, just as Irish as the first, lists the kinds of "maggots" the observer will see. "There will be lots of wallet lifters, and some of the guys who just grab ladies' necklaces and take off with them; and then there...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A City Awaits A Pope | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

Freshman Marc Cooley, whom Mulvihill referred to as "the man to watch", came from behind to nip his Lowell counterpart, 10-9. In the other 190-1bs. bout against Coast Guard, John Williams wrestled aggressively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Pin Lowell, MIT, Drop One to Coast Guard | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Scott short-hopped a Staub grounder, stepped on the bag, and threw to Fisk, who wheeled to nip speedy Aurelio Rodriguez for the final out of the game...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Sox Stop Tiger Threat for 8-6 Win | 9/20/1978 | See Source »

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