Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Park had gone to a swank prep school and Yale, from which he graduated by a judicious choice of snap courses; had started as a runner in Wall Street, been taken into the firm by his father when he showed signs of getting married. Park's father tried to act like an English squire by smelling of tweeds, eau de cologne and tobacco, and by tracking birds across the Long Island marshes, accompanied by his docile wife and an unsatisfactory setter. His generation was bothered by taxes, the New Deal, and the encroachment of the big city...
...exercise called the Second in again, to finish off the once-friendly Fifth, after the 27th and 30th had driven the Fifth across the Duck River. As in the first exercise, George Patton, wearing his newfangled globular tank helmet,* was in the thick of action, ran his show with snap and speed. (Said he: "You can't move a string of spaghetti by pushing it from the hind...
Unless the Crimson suddenly snap out of it, and start a real hitting spurt, things look bad for the crucial Yale games, for they will have to face two of the best hurlers in the East in Ted Harrison and Captain "Smoky Joe" Wood. However, they have shown that it is possible, notably in the Columbia game, and the first tilt with Princeton, when, among a number of singles, they exploded with three triples, two doubles, and a home...
...person in 'four can sit down in a dentist's chair, hypnotize himself, tell himself he will feel no pain in his jaws, snap out of the trance, then be drilled into at painless length. Such posthypnotic anesthesia can be localized at will, lasts perhaps two hours, can be renewed. Warns Salter: "One must be careful not to misuse his autohypnotic ability to mask physical ailments which need a physician's care." But he recommends the technique for incurable cancer agonies...
...WMAQ and were beyond doubt the most goose-fleshing chiller-dillers in air history. At each broadcast's opening a deep, dark, dank voice would instruct listeners to put their lights out and settle back in their chairs, whereupon gore would commence to flow, bones to snap, screams and groans to rowel...