Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally the enemy turned, like a harried animal, to snap at his pursuers. On lateral Highway 74, from the Tyrrhenian coast to Lake Bolsena, the Germans held a line for three days until it was cracked in three places by General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. Grosseto, opposite Elba (see below), fell to the Fifth. With it went a major military airfield about 70 miles from Florence. In 38 days the Fifth had advanced almost 150 miles...
Private James O'Banner, a mild-mannered, youngster from Memphis, Tenn., was the first man to get a Nip. His carbine snap shot stirred up a hornet's nest. A dozen Negroes were slain, 25 were wounded. But 30 Japanese were dead before the melee was over...
...Very End." Whimsical, sometimes irascible Bill Somervell, pride of the highly professional Corps of Engineers, has been criticized for many things. He was lambasted for his snap decision in the Canol oilfield project, and for sticking to it in spite of his critics. (Operation of the $24,000,000 refinery, built with U.S. money in Canada's Northwest, began a fortnight ago-TIME, Oct. 4.) Hard-boiled and quick-tempered when the heat is on, West Pointer Somervell has long riled more ceremonious men by his disregard of red tape, his ruthless firing of officers he deems incompetent...
Last week the Admiralty, never renowned for snap decisions, duly arrived at one. It put Admiral Ramsay (who will command Allied naval forces for the invasion) back on the active list...
...University of Washington, is now studying for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has been a volunteer social worker in Judge Ben Lindsey's once-famed Denver juvenile court, a schoolteacher and Y.W.C.A. camp worker. At the University of Washington she took anthropology as a snap course to make up lost credits, found herself a career...