Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nerves were still good in London last week, but they tightened with the sound of approaching planes. In shelters the tension could be felt as raiders droned overhead. When bombs struck near by, nerves were near the snapping point, but in few cases did they snap. They relaxed when the bombers droned away...
Yale, last June, was expected to snap the Crimson's string in the Junior Varsity race, and, perhaps, in the Varsity. After the combination and Freshman boats laughed their way to victory, the Jayvees jumped Yale, held the lead and won by two lenghts. Then the Varsity never led after the first 12 strokes, counted its monumental 31-second victory...
...Morocco. In 1938 he became State director of the Writers' Project in Michigan. Last year he had returned to his Maryland farm when he was asked if he would try to make WPA's writers write. Soon he was doing it. Says he with an efficient snap in his voice: "This is a production unit, and it's work that counts. I've never been for art for art's sake alone...
Many were the snap answers: he is a great man, he is a menace, he is a phony. But no one knew; to his closest intimates he remained an upper-case X in an equation of variables. This in spite of the fact that the U. S. has a vast, sure talent for knowing its leaders...
...around 160 and paying $7.50), Eastman Kodak (selling around 140 and paying $6), Bethlehem Steel (selling under 80 and paying $3.75), United Aircraft (selling at 48 and paying $2.75), nearly a 5% rate of return on the cream of U. S. business. Traders with cash balanced the temptation to snap up these bargains against the thought that fresh Allied disasters might well knock the market down to still more attractive bargain levels before defense spending takes hold...