Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just as sure as God made little apples, the thing that distinguishes our American commonwealth from the pikers and tinhorns in other countries is our Punch. You take a genu-wine, honest-to-God homo Americanibus and there ain't anything he's afraid to tackle. Snap and speed are his middle name! He'll put her across if he has to ride from hell to breakfast, and believe me I'm mighty good and sorry for the boob that's so unlucky as to get in his way, because that poor slob is going...
...married a curly-haired English girl, installed her in a red brick villa on Guildford's Weyside Road, led her to think he was still in service and had a snap desk job. To make it look real, he left home every day at 8:30 a.m., returned at 4:30 p.m. He regularly promoted himself-to corporal, to sergeant, to sergeant major...
...Christmas outlook for other types of merchandise: ¶ Men's clothing will still be very scarce. Discharged veterans will snap up the increased production of suits, shirts and shorts...
Chinese unity, frayed but not completely broken during eight years of retreat and defeat, seemed about to snap under the impact of victory...
Boston Herald, July 24: "The snap reaction to the report of the Harvard Committee . . . is that this completes a cycle. We had out long period of educational rigidity and standardized curricula. Then came the free elective system as perfected by President Eliot. And now we are back again to the ideal of uniformity, if not conformity. The emphasis is to be once more on what is common to all men rather than on what is individual to each...