Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue to match. Everyone agreed that it was pleasant to look at, but no one got very much excited about the fishing there until two years ago. Then a local meat-market owner got the strike of his life: his reel screamed and he thought his line would snap. From Pend Oreille's cool water, after a few minutes of battle, he pulled a giant 31-lb. Kamloops trout...
...stay below ground until nightfall, when they can safely emerge to do their courting and prowling. Living such a life, the earthworm is intensely nervous and sensitive to the slightest vibration of danger. Though blind, it has learned to pick up the tremors of an approaching sparrow and to snap back into its hole like a rubber band...
...fair excuse for the neat moviemaking which makes this picture entertaining. It is smartly directed by Michael Gordon. Mr. Price, with his sloping charm and his foulard voice, is just what a really villainous Wall Street operator ought 'to look like. Ella Raines has a lot of sneering snap as the kind of top-grade personal secretary whq works a 168-hour week. Edmond O'Brien shows enough honest heelishness, and little enough hard-boiled mawkishness, to be one of the most likable of the tough young thriller heroes who move into Evil's den and drag...
Salt water bathing, traditional balm of the summer scholar, will have to be left to the schrod for the next few days at least, according to local weather experts who predicted a week-long cold snap last night...
...year, and ranked with Grant's Tomb and the Staten Island ferry as a Manhattan tourist attraction. Billy says of this period: "The race is over, I told myself. Stop running. You've won. Let 'em stick the wreath around your neck and snap the pictures. go on back to the barn and take it easy...