Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House had already passed the Patman Bill providing for immediate payment in greenbacks of the Bonus due in 1945 (TIME, Jan. 21). What lay ahead was well known: Passage of a cash Bonus bill; a Presidential veto; an overriding of the veto by the House; a nip & tuck contest in the Senate in which the veto would probably be sustained on condition the President accept a compromise...
...tuck battle for the New England Junior 200-yard free style relay title that left the spectators in doubt as to who had won, the crack Freshman relay team met defeat by a small fraction of a second last night at the heads of the Greenwood Memorial Swimming Club at the Brookline Public Baths...
...stolid, hard worker, absorbed by his finger technique and a bow that moved woodenly. Son Raffael seemed to have more of the old Kubelik flare. His arms shot forth like serpents. His hair was so long and rebellious that he had to stop now and then to tuck it behind his ears. A concerto written by Father Kubelik was the climax of their performance. But no hearts fluttered...
...examination with all comers for their jobs. Civil service officials loudly protested the injustice of making a civil servant take another examination to hold a post for which he had already qualified. But Senator McKellar saw no reason why deserving Democrats should not be given at least a nip & tuck chance at 1,195 desirable government jobs...
...Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample of Author Bradford's method of writing dialect: "And Valivostop! Dat's whar us stopped at to load on some coal. Dey got some drinkin' licker made out'n rice and bramboo and stuff named vockster. And drunk you? I tuck jest two drinks and dey had to tote me on de ship in a sack...