Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mickey Mouse Era. Cause of the inflation was no mystery. The Islands were picked clean by the Japs and goods are scarce. Souvenir-hunting G.I.s and well-heeled Filipinos snap up the thin leavings at any price. Moreover, the Filipinos themselves became accustomed to fantastic prices when the Japs flooded the Islands with their "Mickey Mouse" paper money. At one time, five pounds of rice cost 1,000 pesos in Jap printing-press currency...
...veteran Giants: "If you'd been standing in the right place, you wouldn't have had to run so hard." In the locker room he got two nicknames, "Bright Eyes" and "Little Springtime." Furiously denying that he ever received "mash notes from girls," he learned to snap wet towels back at his tormentors. The sport writers dubbed him "Master Melvin...
Plainer than any words, the buying rush gave Wall Street's coldly unsentimental opinion. It might prove to be snap judgment. But the judgment seemed to be that the reforming spirit of the New Deal which had changed the face of business in the last twelve years had died with the reformer...
...TIME, March 19) popped down on bookstands than angry denunciations began popping down on the author. From the fury of the criticism, White might have been Joseph Goebbels instead of a veteran newsman, with his late father William Allen White's talent for making homespun phrases-and irritating snap judgments...
This lease-guarantee arrangement, Shipbuilder Kaiser thinks, would put big & little companies on a more even footing, e.g., a small company gambling on its ability to find markets might guarantee more jobs than a big company. Furthermore, well-heeled big companies might not be able to snap up the best Government plants by bidding high, then close down less efficient plants of their own. Nor would the Government, with peacetime operation as a guide, put too high a price tag on plants, thus scare off all purchasers, great & small...