Word: nip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anthropologists estimate that men acquired individual names about two million years ago, and ever since, the species has persisted in abusing this innovation through a single insidious practice--name-dropping. My friends and I are awfully distressed by this vicarious form of status-seeking and so, to nip incipient name-droppers in the bud, here is a stage-by-stage account of the development of a name-dropper...
...deputy editor reaches into his desk drawer for a nip. It is time to change the subject...
Dick Betrand's fourth-seeded Big Red had come from behind to nip Colgate in Friday night's semifinal, and then watched tournament favorite Clarkson blow a 3-1 lead in the final '57 seconds of the second game and lose to the seventh-seeded Friars, 4-3, in overtime. With some 3000 of their inimitable fans bused in for the contest--including one toting the shrill cowbell that has fired dozens of Cornell squads to victory through the years--the Ivy Division winners seemed ready to restake their claim as the best in the East...
Never learned to nip in the bud anger to hatred to violence to fury to madness to destruction! Henry Ratliff...
...women's swim team hits the water for the Ivy League championships on Friday, looking to finish third, behind the nip-and-tuck first place battle between Princeton and Brown. Brown may have the advantage as the Bruins will host the meet...