Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing the wise and pungent comments come out of the familiar countenance gives them an additional kick. Mr. Bourneuf is not new to Shaw, having appeared in "Androcles and the Lion" on Broadway two years ago. He skits up and down his poop deck, pausing only long enough to snap his verbal whip...
...grand salon of Havana's domed presidential palace was packed to its mirrored walls with sweating, frock-coated diplomats and Cuban officials. From the plaza outside rose the roar of crowds, the snip-snap of firecrackers. Cannon boomed in salute. Carlos Prío Socarrás, 45, was being sworn in as Cuba's 17th President. With a warm abrazo, 61-year-old Professor-President Ramón Grau San Martin turned over his office to one of his favorite pupils, a student leader in the 1933 revolution that first raised Grau to the presidency...
Retirement seemed out of the question for 69-year-old Grace Coolidge. Down from Northampton, Mass., with a youngster's snap-eyed enthusiasm, the widow of the 30th President of the U.S. saw the World Series in Boston, looking for all the world like a travel agency ad plugging the good life in New England...
Delegates to the Radcliffe meeting should snap at this new project, as should colleges in this region. It is the happiest idea NSA has had in a long while...
...Hands. One of the eeriest features of television commercials is the disembodied hands whose busy work is described by disembodied voices. These ghostly hands are likely to snap. Ronson lighters on & off, or to whip up a foamy lather of Ivory Snow. Some advertisers just skip the hands and let the product operate mysteriously without visible human help...