Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minutes, Two Ships. At 14 minutes before midnight, her batteries spoke. Her target was a Nip destroyer. Just 98 seconds later it was ablaze. As the enemy ship exploded and sank, the Helena swung her guns on a cruiser...
...least 20 more of the smaller distilleries, and Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith estimated that the big fry control 80% of all the bulk whiskey in the U.S. Topers had one safe bet: for the duration liquor will be both scarce and expensive. But they had one nip of comfort-the sober outlook for drinkers makes the outlook for Old Man Prohibition bleak...
...effort to nip this unfolding market in the bud has actually endangered the sanctified privacy of Britons. Police on the Great Western Railway have been seen to eye gentlemen with bulbous suitcases. There has been talk that officers have gone so far as to think of requesting British citizens to open their packages. Last week, when the King & Queen visited Midlands factories, the Queen was handed an orchid bouquet. The King smilingly warned the Queen: "Be careful, if you take those flowers on the train-you don't want to break...
...Exeters Nip Tracksters...
...Exeter, the Jayvee tracksters were nosed out of a victory in a nip-and-tuck battle, when the schoolboys captured first place in the meet finale, the 200-yard relay. Dick Coggeshall ran a dead heat with Exeter's Dick Hall in the thousand, smashing the Exeter record with a sparkling 2:21.7 performance. The meet was tied all the way, and even individual honors were split between the teams. Flint of Harvard and Marshall of Exeter ended one-two in the 45-yard hurdles, trading places in the 40-yard dash...