Word: nips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there's a nip...
Rockefeller's father-in-law, Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy, had a nip-and-tuck election night that did not end as well. Percy, who recently turned 65, was forcibly retired from the Senate after three terms. The onetime presidential prospect was upset by a thoughtful and tweedy downstate Congressman, Paul Simon...
...stiletto heels they stamp into the ladies' room, flounce around the corner past the polished washbasins and disappear into the two long rows of toilet stalls. They are the kind of girls who obey their mothers' warnings never to sit on strange toilet seats. Attendants have to nip in after that type, making sure the next woman will have no unpleasant surprises. That is the sort of job specification that made Donna Summer's song about a ladies' room attendant, She Works Hard for the Money, a big hit, especially in the neon city...
...waged passionate campaigns to preserve England's historical treasures and opposed the spread of urban development. In 1972, Queen Elizabeth named Betjeman poet laureate, a title once held by Tennyson and Wordsworth, but ill health curtailed his productivity over the past decade. One of his last collections, A Nip in the Air, concluded with a poignant epitaph: "Now if the harvest is over/ And the world cold/ Give me the bonus of laughter/ As I lose hold...
Voting trends show that the country is becoming more sympathetic to incumbents after a period of hostility spurred by Watergate. Republicans want to nip the Democratic freshmen in the bud before they gain the vaunted status of political old-timers...