Word: nips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Bok has the power to nip this nascent crisis in the bud. Surely Harvard does not need another racial blackeye. The Black workers and their supporters are still hoping that Bok will read the signs of the times. But thus far Bok seems more inclined to build walls than to read the handwriting on them...
...Briggs Athletic Center can't lure more than 500 supporters to a game. The cagers aren't a UCLA team, but they aren't winless either, and the hard-fighting Crimson have only been out of a game three times. Coach Frank McLaughlin's team mounted a comeback to nip brother Tom McLaughlin's UMass squad, 45-44, in Amherst earlier this season...
Much of the same sort of self-destruction has happened in Illinois this fall A nip-an-tock gubernatorial campaign has become a runway for Republication incumbent James "Big Jim" Thompson, in the wake of a glaring gaffe by Democratic challenger Adlai E. Stevenson III. Addressing reporters after a debate with Thompson in September. Stevenson complained that the incumbent "is saying me tough guy. as if to simply I'm some kind of wimp." The local press latched on to the remark as indicative of Stevenson's aloofly intellectual bearing, and a series of "wimp jokes" ensued. ("What does...
...Nip and Tuck...
...while it even looked as if All-American Howard Sands was going to become Harvard's fifth casualty in the singles competition. After quickly falling behind Princeton's Ted Farnsworth, who had excellent ball placement and resembled a backboard when he returned his shots. Sands rebounded to nip Farnsworth in the first set, 7-5, and to manhandle him in the second...