Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even a trimming at the hands of Navy will not leave Bolles too depressed, nor will it nip the Crimson's Olympic hopes before they have a chance to bloom. Contrary to popular belief, qualification for the trials in June is not based on the situation in the win and loss columns, but merely on the filling out of an application form...
...effort to nip in the but any speculator about his absence at the current Washington meeting of 16 top Democratic National Committee leaders. Flynn declared that he had "made this Cambridge engagement some months ago" and did not feel he could manage...
...charges against British rule in Palestine. Britain, said the Jews, had "persistently yielded" to Arab violence and had helped to arm the Arabs, but had hamstrung Jewish defense efforts by searching out arms caches and disarming Jewish defense forces. "A swift assertion of lawful authority," said the statement, "can nip the evil in the bud and prevent violent movements from gathering momentum...
...fine upstanding old man who loved dogs and children and an occasional nip. He had a beard that was white and hoary with age and he made his living as a manufacturer of men's souls. In a way, he was very proud of his job because the souls that he made were very good souls, some of them were almost flawless...
...force manufacturers to unload hoarded stocks, taxes were upped. To nip the credit inflation, he halved the lending power of Italian banks. To tide over small companies, the government formed the Fondo Industrie Mecaniche, a sort of RFC. In two months it has already made loans of 5 billion lira...