Word: snap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extended countrywide, would mean a Tory majority of 100 seats at a general election this fall. Such a majority, they reasoned, would let them slip away for dinner parties and evenings in West End theaters instead of being always on call, lest Labor outpoll the government on a snap vote...
Although newspaper stories filed from Turkey reported these flurries as "anti-Americanism," they were actually just politicking prior to the general elections in May. Anti-American feeling hardly exists in Turkey. Though they snap at each other, Turkey's two major parties agree, as President Bayar recently told a U.S. audience, that "private enterprise is the best system [for] rehabilitating a country that is economically backward...
...Chinese say: "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." Inevitably, under pressure of Soviet threat and promise, Europeans tend to call appeasement "neutralism." Even among the U.S. people and their leaders, there are those who snap at Soviet bait or become confused about Soviet intentions...
Should cancer victims be told the truth? Many doctors have snap answers to this question, but Otis Bowen, a general practitioner in the little Indiana town of Bremen (pop. 2,664), asked his patients what their answer would be if they ever got cancer. Last week Dr. Bowen was busy mailing out his findings to fellow physicians who wanted to know the patient's point of view. Among 477 patients (all white, but well divided as to age, sex, educational background and economic position). Dr. Bowen found...
...nation's youth and some pointed advice to parents. "Sensationalism notwithstanding," said Psychiatrist James C. Flanagan, "it is simply not true that our adolescents are going to the dogs." The way to keep more of them from getting into trouble, he believes, is not simply to snap at them, "Grow up!", but to give them constructive help in doing...