Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army) and MAAF (Mediterranean Army Air Forces) and 15th Army Group Headquarters, while still other copies are delivered to Army Post Exchanges, Red Cross clubs and restcamps throughout the area. And then the last remaining copies go to Rome kiosks where English-reading Italians snap them up quickly...
...consumers would stop their mad rush to buy clothing and wait until midsummer, they might save themselves close to a billion dollars a year. Reason: prices will be lower. Last week, WPB and OPA finally decided to snap a checkrein on runaway textile prices. Shoppers agreed that it was high time. Since 1939 the volume of woven fabrics available to civilians had decreased 20%, but the nation's clothing bill had zoomed skyward from 1939's $5.8 billion to $11.4 billion last year...
...Snap, Crackle, Pop! In Granite, Colo., Bill Lane, unable to start his frigid truck, built a fire under it, ignited the garage, exploded an oil barrel, blew the roof off the garage, injured a friend, splattered the west side of Granite with burning oil, brought out the Leadville Fire Department, burned his house down...
...this offensive formation, for he is intrusted with both the deception and the power of the attack. Really the only man for the spectator to watch if he wants to see the plays unfold in true Harlow fashion, he is the one who gets the pigskin on almost every snap in this lineup, spins and fakes it to one, two, and sometimes three-on an end around--different men, often smashing at the line then himself. Of course, added deception comes in the fact that on a fast-breaking smash, the ball sometimes goes straight to one of the other...
Mechanics. The mechanics of transition could not be accomplished by a snap of the fingers. The War Department ordered all theater commanders to retrain noncombat personnel in a tough, twelve-week course. Conversely, rear-area units raided of their physically fit were allowed to be temporarily over strength so that combat veterans, taking over, could be trained for their new jobs...