Word: nip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basketball coach had to watch his Trojans nip Harvard by only 27 points on December 28. For USC (only 7-1 at the time, only 8-1 after crushing Brooklyn College the next night), the victory was only its sixth in a row. And Raveling was furious...
Winkler rebounded to nip Dragomirescu, 7-6, inthe third and final set to notch the win and putthe Tigers a match from clinching a stake in theIvy title...
Perhaps if the staff had schlepped up to Potsdam, N.Y., to watch the hockey team lose twice in the North Country or spent their Thanksgiving vacations in Durham, N.C., watching Duke nip our men's basketball team by 76 points, they wouldn't brush off this year's athletic disappointments so cavalierly...
...baseball never changes. A perfectly fielded ground ball to the shortstop will still nip even the fastest of runners at first just as it did in 1908 (the last time the Cubs won a World Series, by the way). The epic struggle of the hitter and pitcher carries all the potency today as when Ty Cobb first stepped to the plate 90 years ago. And for the fans, Gary Cooper in Pride of the Yankees was just as cool as Robert Redford in The Natural...
...basketball coach had to watch his Trojans nip Harvard by only 27 points on December 28. For USC (only 7-1 at the time, only 8-1 after crushing Brooklyn College the next night), the victory was only its sixth in a row. And Raveling was furious...