Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was not a decision to be made with a snap of the fingers. It might mean sacrificing many men, much equipment. But it was so logical as to be imperative: a race to the Caucasus would both protect the Russian Achilles' heel and provide the least difficult means of sending supplies to Russia...
Clifton Fadiman is a striking proof that a regular reviewer need not necessarily degenerate into a facile purveyor of snap judgments and hopeful guesses. He was the first--and, I think, the only-- reviewer to offer an annual mea culpa to his readers; and while he explains his introduction of this custom rather cynically in terms of space-filling rather than conscientiousness, his reader may reserve judgment...
...Singapore for relay to Batavia went 200 grams vitamin BI (value: $1,340), shipping documents, samples of wire brushes, samples of butter flavor, glow lamps, snap-fastener samples...
Father Takes a Wife (RKO Radio) is tailored to measure for almond-eyed Gloria Swanson, making her reappearance on the screen after seven years. A sophisticated comedy with enough snap in its dialogue and situations to earn a passing grade, it demands only a minimum performance from the hard-eyed, prognathous beauty who was once queen of the silent movies...
...effort to snap the team into condition for its opening game with Penn a week from Saturday, the coaches have been neglecting signal drill in favor of conditioning exercises. So many of the players have been out for a few days at a time with slight injuries that Harlow feels that physically the squad is below...