Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reconstructed and as yet un published directive emphasizes a longterm, cautious struggle to take over all of Viet Nam. Communist forces will try to force Saigon to implement the Paris accords ("a great victory") so that the North Vietnamese army and Viet Cong guerrillas can nip off territory bit by bit. Says the document: "We will have to attack point by point, grasping partial victories and advancing to ward final victory...
...ginger ale. Michel, on a liquor-free diet, thought he would have a companion again. "Oh, now, come on," Nixon urged the Congressman, who heads the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, "break down a bit." Nixon did. He had a couple of Scotches and water. Then there was a nip of light white Bordeaux with the crab claws and some hearty California Cabernet Sauvignon with the beef. Michel unlimbered his camera and took some snaps of the men on this special excursion into history...
...managed to exploit their weaknesses in the field by taking 34 out of 36 points in the jumping," Coach Edgar Stowell said yesterday. "But it was still nip and tuck...
...books in one hand, a brown paper bag containing a beer bottle in the other. He takes a swig, then passes bag and bottle to a classmate. In a San Francisco suburb, several high school freshmen show up for class drunk every morning, while others sneak off for a nip or two of whisky during the lunch recess. On the campuses the beer bash is fashionable once again, and lowered drinking ages have made liquor the high without the hassle...
...Always a much more complex man than his natural ebullience and everpresent pipe suggest, he provides few glimpses of his inner self and has no close political cronies. At 58, his tastes, like his upbringing as the son of a Yorkshire industrial chemist, are unpretentious: detective stories, raspberries, a nip of brandy. Each summer, he spends three weeks in his cottage on the desolate Scilly Isles (where a local Tory was obliged to fish him out of the sea last summer when his dinghy overturned...