Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treatment of mental illness is in the throes of a revolution. For the first time in history, pills and injections (of two inexpensive drugs) are enabling psychiatrists to 1) nip in the bud some burgeoning outbreaks of emotional illness, 2) treat many current cases far more effectively, and 3) in some instances reverse long-standing disease so that patients can be freed from the hopeless back wards of mental hospitals where they have been "put away" for years...
...This year's competition is nip and tuck. Right now there are four or five top teams in the running," he went...
...closest events of the evening were the 200-yard back and breast strokes. Paul Santmire and Bill Hoadley easily won their races, but Ned Benton had to come from behind in the last lap to catch Tech ace Bob Jantzen in the backstroke; and breaststroke John Fowler managed to nip M.I.T.'s Bill Buck at the finish...
Reported our subscription sleuth: "Nip was only too right. We had not trusted our own eyes. We simply added Nap's new subscription to Nip's old one on the supposition that they were one and the same Brigham. Adjustment has been made, and Nip has been advised." By now two copies of TIME are going to Box 1 in Dyersburg every week-one for Nip...
...nage a àQuatre. In San Francisco, Edward J. Broxton won a divorce after testifying that Nettie Broxton insisted on taking her two dogs, which "sometimes nip at my legs," to bed with them...