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...over the Huskies(12-5-1), who had been the honest team in the East over the last ten days, pushes the Crimson (now 8-8-2) back up to the 500 mark, just a nip and a tuck behind Yale (9-8-1) and Cornell (9-8-1) in the all-important Ivy Division race. The Ivy winner is guaranteed a playoff berth and has home ice in the first post-season round...
Naggling ailments continue to nip at the necks and heels of number three Chip Robie and five Charlie Duffy. Although both will play today. Robie is nursing a strep throat while Duffy is treading gingerly with a bone bruise on his left foot...
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...