Word: nip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think of the fancy dishes you slaved over that became disasters, big dishes that were lost in the late innings. Here's roast turkey, which tastes great, and all you do is baste. You melt butter, you nip at the wine, and when the turkey is done, you seat everyone, carve the bird, sing the doxology and pass the food...
Deservedly so. His Chili Palmer is a Miami loan shark, the kind of good fellow who can shatter his competitor's nose and with a casually aimed shot nip a sliver off his scalp, in the process neither raising his voice nor losing his shy little smile. He's a much neater operative than Pulp's Vinnie. And his drug of choice is much less threatening; it's old movies. For he's also the kind of film geek who can identify Rio Bravo from a few snippets overheard on the TV set in another room, or mouth...
...Flyers Nip Whalers...
...Habs Nip Quebec...
...would be a lopsided contest. Peru's armed forces (115,000 soldiers) and population (22 million) are twice the size of its rival's. ``Conflicts like this start as skirmishes, but they always hold within them the potential to escalate,'' says a senior Administration official. ``It's important to nip them in the bud.'' And in this case, to try to settle the border dispute once...