Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find some strange things on Jap bodies. After routing the remnants of an enemy unit from a difficult jungle ridge with flamethrowers, the following items were found on one deceased Nip...
...Leaving a cemetery where he had just buried a friend, Barrymore was seated in a car with a crotchety old stranger who objected when John took a nip from a flask. "If you have no respect for the surroundings," chided the oldster, "you might have some for me-I am 97 years old." Jack gazed out at the graveyard, murmured: "There doesn't seem to be much point in your leaving the place...
Freshen the nip: pour yourself another...
...second day of the Marines' landing, while the struggle for Tarawa was still nip-&-tuck, two seasoned British Empire servants had come ashore: Lieut. Colonel Vivian Fox-Strangways, India-born, Africa-trained, Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony; and Major Francis G. I. Holland, Director of Education among the 27,000 Gilbertese. In his kit Major Holland carried a British flag...
None paid closer heed than soft-faced, whip-lipped Heinrich Himmler (TIME, Oct. 18). As the Minister of Interior, appointed less than three months ago (see cut), he stood alert to nip the rise of "any traitor chief...