Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also inspected artillery pieces which had been fired successfully in Churchill's cold, then stored for the rest of the winter by "cocooning" them with a plastic sprayed over canvas. They had come through in good shape. But artillerymen still have their troubles. Braking spades on gun carriages snap off on the first recoil; in extreme cold some explosives become unstable and are either dangerous to handle or hard to fire. Americans and Canadians, working in parallel experiments, are still trying to figure the best way to keep engine oils fluid...
Radcliffe opinion on the proposed joint examination plan ranged yesterday from snap disapproval to a willingness to hear the whole story, but most 'Cliffedwellers voiced deep dismay at the prospect of "going formal" to a date with a blue book. Customary 'Cliffe garb for exams is an ensemble of beat-up blue jeans, sneakers, and size 40 shirt, which are frowned upon in the Yard...
...best baseball team in the Eastern League will play here at 3:45 o'clock today. Navy, which has beaten three major league teams as well as shutting out Yale, will provide the opposition as Dolph Samborski's nine attempts to snap a two game losing streak...
Commander Ronne flew 39,000 miles of mapping flights through air so pure that a pilot could see 200 miles ahead. His special trimetrogon cameras (three cameras working simultaneously) could snap horizon-to-horizon photographs every 20 seconds for the mapmakers. The photos would make it possible to chart the last unknown coastline in the world. With the explorer's prerogative, he named places for friends and colleagues: Edith Ronne Land for his wife, Isaiah Bowman Coast (for the geographer-president of Johns Hopkins), Lowell Thomas Mountains, Larry Gould Bay (for the explorer-president of Carleton College...
This spring training, coasting along, Kiner is experimenting with a "standing swing": planting his feet a yard apart at the plate, and belting the ball without stepping into it. This unnatural stance (also used by Joe DiMaggio) takes maximum wrist-snap and timing. Kiner still hasn't got it down right. Against Feller, he struck out once, flied out once. But he expects to top his 51-homer mark this season, earn his 200% raise (to about...