Search Details

Word: nip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...days & nights later. Tone was out and Neal was in. Neal spent the next month and a half lolling around Barbara's patio doing nip-ups with bar bells while Barbara gazed adoringly. The gallant Neal later told friends: "Barbara asked me to marry her. It wasn't the other way round. She said she was in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Pursuit of Happiness | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...mood to crow. By this week the Indians had won eleven straight, 38 of their last 47 games, had pulled themselves up from ten games off the pace to a lead of two and a half games over the New York Yankees in the nip & tuck American League pennant race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indian Sign | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...winning ball. It was in the peak of condition to meet the Blue on Soldiers Field. But hard-plunging Yale backs gave the visitors a 13-0 win in a driving rain. Hopelessly cheering until the last play, the man of '26 lighted up a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flask, snuggled a little deeper into his raccoon coat, and brought his date into Boston to see the smash hit of the day, Mr. John Galsworthy's "Loyalties...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Prohibition, Winning Football, Lowell Dispute Among Memories of 1926's First Three Terms | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Last year at Annapolis the Crimson came from a length and a half behind to nip the Quakers by two seconds and retain the Cup. Navy, too, has lost to the Tigers, and also to Cornell and Columbia...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Eight Battles Penn, Sailors On Schuylkill | 5/11/1951 | See Source »

...first period was nip and tuck; the Green and White went ahead in the opening minutes, but Curtis soloed and tied the game. Again Deerfield scored, but Aiello got that one back by flipping in a loose ball. The visitor's counted twice more, however, and the quarter ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '54 Lacrossemen Bow to Deerfield | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

Previous | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | Next