Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once more, as during the days of Vichy appeasement, U.S. editorialists dragged out the simile of the long, thin thread which soon must snap. Wrote New York Times Managing Editor Edwin L. James: ". . . If he defies Washington, there will be created a situation which, to repeat, could scarcely be allowed to continue...
...almost three years the State Department and the Admiral had been a finger-snap away from the brief act of violence in which the U.S. would take over Martinique. By cunning diplomacy on each side, by inexhaustibly ingenious tactics, the relations were prolonged again & again & again. Each time editors harrumphed: this is it. Each time one side or the other had managed to think of one more démarche, one more protocol, one more possible avenue of negotiation. Even the cutting off of food supplies had failed to shake Admiral Robert. For 35 months he had forced...
Just in case you thought next semester would be a snap, here's a look at the courses. Nine courses a week of Navy disbursing under Lt. Com. I. S. Moore, head of NSCS disbursing, three hours of Procurement and Sources of Supply II, with emphasis on procurement, under Professors Lewis and Tosdale; Industrial Management II, emphasizing personnel and management controls, under Professors Meriam and Cies (3 hours); Foreign Resources with Professor De Haas, 2 hours; Professor Snyder's Policy Aspects of War Production, and Professor Cunningham's course in Transportation, both three hours . . . total class hours 23. We just...
Under new management, Harvard's Varsity lacrosse team will invade Andover this afternoon in an attempt to snap their three game slump and bring the season average up to the 500 mark...
...That the Republican opposition in Press and Congress is often flipped an exciting lure at which to snap while big things are being done. Example: the tremendous rise the President got out of the Press and Congress when he took his secret trip around the U.S. in 1942 and returned to lash out at "Washington"; during the ensuing indignation, the Administration pursued its serious business unopposed...