Word: tuck
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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While Scotland Yard, aided by the professor's daughter and his young colleague, directs a nip & tuck hunt for the man and his bomb, the cabinet secretly orders the machinery of evacuation oiled up. Rumor gives the public a bad case of war jitters. Then, crowded by the professor's deadline, the Prime Minister shares the secret with the people in a tense radio talk. Troops and civil defense workers take over the city; packing only what belongings they can carry by hand, London's millions queue up resolutely to roll out in all directions...
...singles by George Chase, Walt Greeley and two wild pitches. Harvard, paced by John Canepa's triple with two on, got three runs in the third but the Purple came back with three in the fourth, two in the fifth, and one in the sixth, seventh, and eighth to tuck away the game. Bodgan walked four in the seventh and three in the eighth, forcing in the final Crimson tallies. ab r h po a e Canepa, 2b 2 0 1 5 4 0 Smith, (C); cf 4 0 0 0 1 0 Collins...
Never a man to make things easy for himself, Director Hitchcock has tried in Stage Fright to work within the discipline of a tricky story conceit: his heroine (Jane Wyman) plays romantic nip & tuck simultaneously with a suspected murderer (Richard Todd) and the Scotland Yard man (Michael Wilding) who is tracking him down. Hitchcock exploits the situation as much for chuckles as for chills. The result is an entertaining show, handsomely produced against a London background, studded with effective scenes and enlivened by an excellent cast that includes an uncannily young and beautiful Marlene Dietrich and able British Comedian Alistair...
...first five minutes of last week's game it was nip & tuck. Then, when the score reached gall, Minneapolis spurted ahead. Two of its big guns-Mikan and Vern Mikkelsen-were seesawing the Trotters dizzy from a double pivot. At the half, Minneapolis was breezing along in front, 40-29. Although the Globetrotters put two and sometimes three men on Mikan, they could not stop the big fellow, and loose-jointed "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Trotters' pivotman center, fouled out trying...
...there is no rice, if there are no beans If there is no butter to spread on your bread, If you have no shirt to tuck in your jeans, Take hope! Adhemar dá jeito...