Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alarmed by reports that national magazine photographers were coming to Cambridge to snap scenes of Harvard military and naval units cheering for Army during the game. University authorities reiterated last night that no such provision has been made...
While at school, the executives will sleep in regular barracks, eat Army chow, learn to salute (the War Department would not say whether they would have to snap out of bunks at reveille), and learn something about the military side of fighting. Meanwhile the officers with whom they rub elbows will learn about business, from priority headaches to defects in Army contracts...
...guard in the South, respectively, Johnson is an All-American prospect who runs like a supercharged steamroller, and has a habit of winning close once with handy field goals. Ramsey is the lauky, canny type of guard that catches onto the enemy signals well enough to beat the snap-back into opposing backfields...
...spring and summer. It wasn't that Vag disliked the ideals behind the conditioning program--he always loved ideals, but he groaned soulfully at the memories which thronged his mind. Long afternoons on Soldiers field, bending his battered body into positions for which it was clearly unintended, the horrible snap of his tendons the first time his lantern-jawed wrestling opponent threw him, and the regimentation...
...saving waste paper and immediately were advised to quit and send it to the dump. We sacrificed much usable aluminum on a like drive, only to find that it was not suitable for airplanes. We had the tin-can bungle and the canceled postage-stamp fiasco. These panicky and snap drives have plainly got the people dubious on Washington advice...