Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team will begin its annual intrasquad round-robin at the Tennis and Racquet Club next week, in preparation for its only match, the H-Y-P intercollegiate tournament in the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York on March 9. Captain Randy Hackett and Ed Harding are nip and tuck for the top position. The team will definitely be favored to take the tourney for the third straight year...
...votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle with Cliff Young, Democratic Incumbent Alan Bible spurted ahead, eked out a breathless victory...
...York City's popular Mayor Robert Wagner, who, at week's end, had no real opposition. On the Republican side, the leading contender is G.O.P. Attorney General Jacob Javits, 52, the only Republican to win a statewide office in 1954. New York's November outlook: nip, tuck, and rough...
Tiny TV Camera. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has pared down a TV camera to 1¾ by 2 by 5 in., sufficiently small and light to tuck into the thin wings of supersonic jet fighters. With such cameras set to watch the vertical stabilizer, landing gear and other parts of a new plane, pilots can see what is happening to a jet as it happens, rather than filming the action, watching the event from films afterward. Other possible uses include walkie-talkie-lookie...
...final minutes, however, the Yardlings suddenly came alive and the game became a nip and tuck affair. The lead switched hands several times but the team from Hanover came out on top. Good foul shooting by the Indians thwarted a last-second drive by the Harvard freshmen...