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...lacrosse team faces M.I.T. today they will be a little weaker than the team that bested the Engineers by 12 goals a year ago, while the Engineers are certain to field a much stronger team. The result may well lead to what coach Bruce Munro terms a "nip and tuck game situation...
...send the missiles around the U.S. so that no enemy could zero in on them. But it turned out that the rail-riding Minuteman would increase costs by 60%; and last fortnight, after spending $108 million on the project, the Defense Department canceled the railroad scheme, decided to tuck all Minutemen underground...
Hurt by the loss of Winkey Davenport, the Cardinal's top scorer who sat out with an injury, Wesleyan put up a strong nip-and-tuck battle with the Crimson in the first ten minutes, but slowly plummeted behind as coach Floyd Wilson poured on a high-powered attack during the remainder of the game...
...Catch-22 is told and retold. With each telling, some new detail, some further revelation is dangled like a carrot for the reader who reads on and on until he feels like "The Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice" (the ironic title of one chapter). Heller fights a nip-and-tuck battle with the twin temptations of redundance and abundance, succumbs shamelessly to blatant gag writing until much of his dialogue resembles an old Smith & Dale vaudeville sketch ("Why can't you marry me?" "Because you're crazy." "Why am I crazy?" "Because you want to marry...
Grand Illusion. Ironically, notes a Detroit restaurateur, a well-known stiff often gets better service than a mark, because he is considered a challenge, and waitresses will do everything but tuck his napkin under his chin to see if he can be unstiffened. This points to the larger fact that trying to buy service through tipping is an illusion. The nouveaux riches, or Willis Waydes, have always been far less well served than the notoriously careful aristocratic rich, celebrated in O'Hara. The way some people tip at Boston's Ritz-Carlton, it is easy to see that...