Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halliday's psychosocial medicine would include "biopolitics." He gives a practical tip: avoid political leaders who themselves have recurring psychosomatic illnesses like skin troubles, stomach ulcers, rheumatism...
...have been hearing about the results of the Axelrod story ever since Fred Brown, proprietor of Brown's Drug Store in Woonsocket, got a tip that it would be in the forthcoming (Feb. 2) issue of TIME and ran the following ad in the Woonsocket Call...
...most sinister figure around Helsinki is that of Lieut. General Grigory Savonenkov, the Soviet minister, a bullyragging, bellowing, table-pounding type. Savonenkov's arrival in Helsinki in mid-January was the first tip-off to the Finns that trouble was brewing. At that time I filed you a brief piece about his arrival, and the Moscow censor deleted his military title and all reference to his general's uniform. This time I inquired whether he was still wearing the uniform. The reply from a competent Finnish observer: "I think he sleeps...
Still lazier anglers can find an outlet for their sloth in "tip-up" or "tilt" fishing. The fisherman merely sets his rig over an ice-hole and retires to the security of a bazing fire on the shore...
When a fish bites, it seems, the "tip-up" waves a bright red flag in the air. The sportsman then leaps up, snatches his booty, and again retires to his point of vantage. This whole procedure is guaranteed to be simultaneousy thrilling and restful...