Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spearheads tipped by armored trains thrust eastward along the Chinese Eastern Railway toward Harbin, making gains up to 50 miles a day. On the north, the Amur River was crossed in two parallel pushes. From the Vladivostok panhandle, two more drives were launched, one westward along the railway to nip Harbin in a giant pincers, the other southward into Korea, where the port of Rashin was captured...
...Nip & Tuck. In San Pedro, Calif., a dog snapped at Private Michael Zanick's gun and holster, hung on until the gun went off, blasting Zanick's toe. In Manhattan, Mrs. Marie Zollinger leaned over to tuck in the bedding, was shot in the chest by the rifle her husband kept under the mattress...
...painted iron bed, which his daughter-in-law considers a monstrosity, is as chipped as a battleship's anchor. On the walls are a few Navy cutlasses. In a locker ("closet" to landlubbers) is a supply of brandy. The Admiral, who smokes furiously, drinks little, but relishes a nip of brandy in the evening...
Morale among the CATS is probably as high as in any training unit. Last week the first issue of Cat-Nip, in some respects similar to The Lucky Bag but with the Japanese words and phrases mingled with the more accustomed lingo, made its four-paged heliotyped appearance...
...expects to keep an eye on materials through a check on inventories, thus nip any hoarding. Actually, there may be little reason to hoard. Last week, steelmen told WPB: war-expanded steel plants are now big enough to supply all the steel needed for the Japanese war and still have left more than the whole civilian economy used before Pearl Harbor...