Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economist Burns served notice that the Eisenhower Administration is ready to curb credit in housing, the stock market or automobiles to nip any speculative boom. Burns also tossed off a veiled hint that the prospect of tax cuts next year depends on a sharp cut in Government spending. Said he: "Balancing the budget is imperative in a time of high prosperity." Signs of high prosperity seemed to be everywhere last week...
...weeks, officials at Manhattan's New York Mercantile Exchange had been watching what looked like shenanigans in the trading of potato futures. Prices of Maine potatoes slated for late May delivery were bouncing up and down, apparently without much regard to actual crop prospects. To nip attempts at price manipulation, the exchange boosted its margin requirements on Maine potato futures from $240 per 450-bag contract to $800 for traders who wanted to speculate in potatoes. But the margin boost did little good. Last fortnight, when delivery time for May potatoes arrived, the Mercantile Exchange found itself...
...seconds earned their third place after a nip-and-tuck battle with Princeton, pulling away only after the last quarter mile. Times were Cornell, 6:06.1; Yale, 6:07.4; Harvard, 6:14.3; Princeton, 6:15.9; Navy, 6:17.5; and Penn...
...York's Metropolitan Jockey Club belatedly arranged to televise its last race of the spring meeting: the $111,700 mile-and-a-furlong Wood Memorial. And thanks to the desperate courage of Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, closing from behind in the final jump to nip Mrs. John W. Galbreath's Summer Tan by a neck, millions of televiewers saw a thriller...
...sentenced to 30 days in jail after the Rev. Daniel Quillen, pastor of the San Domingo Methodist Episcopal Church, reported that during a Sunday-morning service McGlotten strolled about shaking hands with parishioners, repeatedly sang Throw Out the Life Line, and occasionally stepped out to his car for a nip of wine...