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...waged passionate campaigns to preserve England's historical treasures and opposed the spread of urban development. In 1972, Queen Elizabeth named Betjeman poet laureate, a title once held by Tennyson and Wordsworth, but ill health curtailed his productivity over the past decade. One of his last collections, A Nip in the Air, concluded with a poignant epitaph: "Now if the harvest is over/ And the world cold/ Give me the bonus of laughter/ As I lose hold...
Voting trends show that the country is becoming more sympathetic to incumbents after a period of hostility spurred by Watergate. Republicans want to nip the Democratic freshmen in the bud before they gain the vaunted status of political old-timers...
President Bok has the power to nip this nascent crisis in the bud. Surely Harvard does not need another racial blackeye. The Black workers and their supporters are still hoping that Bok will read the signs of the times. But thus far Bok seems more inclined to build walls than to read the handwriting on them...
...Briggs Athletic Center can't lure more than 500 supporters to a game. The cagers aren't a UCLA team, but they aren't winless either, and the hard-fighting Crimson have only been out of a game three times. Coach Frank McLaughlin's team mounted a comeback to nip brother Tom McLaughlin's UMass squad, 45-44, in Amherst earlier this season...
Much of the same sort of self-destruction has happened in Illinois this fall A nip-an-tock gubernatorial campaign has become a runway for Republication incumbent James "Big Jim" Thompson, in the wake of a glaring gaffe by Democratic challenger Adlai E. Stevenson III. Addressing reporters after a debate with Thompson in September. Stevenson complained that the incumbent "is saying me tough guy. as if to simply I'm some kind of wimp." The local press latched on to the remark as indicative of Stevenson's aloofly intellectual bearing, and a series of "wimp jokes" ensued. ("What does...