Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trying to snap out of a two-game losing streak and come up to its early season promise, the Yardling quintet will journey down to New Haven to meet the Yale Cubs tonight...
...reviewer must see "Hamlet" tonight and the latest Cole Porter musical tomorrow night and comment intelligently on both. This calls for immediate reactions to an art form existing only for a short period of time. A high aesthetic standard, a delight in the whole range of the theatre, snap judgment, and a scholarly background--these are the requisites for the drama critic. No wonder that the critic retreats into individualistic displays of bon mots and wit in his reviews...
...male, his pants and socks dragging, his sports ruined, his wife bulging in the wrong places, his balloonless children teething on wood, his car tireless in the garage, riding off to work on a hard-benched bus or subway, unable to erase mistakes, or snap a band around them, could now really get down to hating Japan and the Axis...
...Auction. The Miller outline began at the raw tobacco auction, where, he charged, Big Three operations deprive the individual farmer of all bargaining power. When 1,602,000 farmers bring their produce to the warehouses, Big Three buyers snap up two-thirds to three-fourths of all their burley tobacco, 30-40% of all their flue-cured crop (the rest being mainly exported). In any given auction, said the Government, Big Three buyers fail to bid seriously against each other (though no one will attend a market unless the other two are there). In some cases, they walk ahead...
...those many months the Hanover redskins have been waiting patiently for it to get could enough to freeze their rink, which depends on Mother Nature and not modern inventions for ice. Before yesterday's cold snap ice was not forthcoming, and so Eddie Jeremiah, coach of the Green squad which faces a tough swing through the west during the forthcoming holidays, suddenly changed his mind and accepted Clark Hodder's invitation for an unofficial game, which previously had been regretted...