Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their present positions for two months. In the retelling, the story got better and better: "many prisoners, captured documents, intercepted orders. . . ." Suddenly the air grew cold along Italy's shin and there were snow flurries on the hilltops. And so, what with the garrulous prisoner and the cold snap, a phrase was born. The Germans, it was said, had taken a stance along a "winter line...
...Nazi domination in Norway was snapping and crackling last week. One snap took the form of a document, The Church and the Transition Period, telling Norwegian Christians how to behave toward quislingites when the Nazis are driven out. The document is sponsored in the U.S. by the Norwegian Information Service. It is anonymous, but the Norwegian authors state that they have "questioned certain churchmen regarding their views...
Calisthenics period, 1941 model: "Counta one, stretch yer arms out... counta till leave 'em snap back...
...Harvard students are broke, 39 is a mystic Hindu number (like Ali Babs and the Forty Thieves, of which one was just poor but honest)., and the average allowance of students in Indic Philology 39b is 39 dollars (amazing coincidence you think?). Now who takes Ind. Phil. 39b. a snap course, why that great group of takers of snap courses, the Lampoon. There we have it. Last day, 39 dollars, Ind. Phil. 39b. 'Poon. It's plain as day. THE 'POON DID IT. That's all right, folks, don't applaud. It was elementary...
Zemke: Get way up and try again. If you can't shake it down, you'll have to jump. Be careful. Put your landing gear handle in down position, do a bank on the left wing and snap it over to the right. Let me get a little ahead...