Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snap Prophecy. In Los Angeles, a sign in a stationer's window read: "We are now taking orders for rubber bands...
...Istanbul a friend of the Nazis was missing. Thomas Ludwig (or Lewine), Gestapo agent and "honorary Aryan," had a trap door in front of his desk which, in his heyday, he used to snap open by means of a concealed button. Said he: "In this work [spying] one must be prepared to spirit away undesirable elements without a trace." Last week Ludwig had vanished without a trace...
...That apparent casualness and man-to-man friendliness which rather appalled our disciplinarians at home disappears. Commands are tersely given and tersely acknowledged with an immediate 'Yes, sir,' and a smart salute. All trace of casualness evaporates. These men go to it with the snap of Guardsmen...
...afterthought we have decided to let our generosity overflow to the extent of making your career here absolutely a snap. In Foreign Resources, there are two cardinal rules to success...
...signed up for journalism because he had heard it was a snap course. The high spot of his college career was a trip to Japan with the Indiana University base ball team. No athlete, he thumbed his way to the coast, worked his passage across the Pacific as a cabin boy. A few months before he was to graduate, his restlessness grew too much for him. He quit school and went to work for the La Porte...