Word: snap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back home in Whittier last week, the folks were confident. Said Frank Nixon: "With Eisenhower and him together, they'll make things snap. They'll win-I don't care...
...voice, and it had a tale to tell. Dave and Jim had reached the summit by traversing an 18-in. snow rib that ran for about 300 ft. Coming back, they had stopped a moment-letting the rope that bound them together go slack-for Jim to snap a shot of the summit...
...radar equipment. Neither plane carries guns, only rockets. The Starfire's twenty-four 2.75-in. rockets are tucked away in a ring around its blunt, black, radar-packed nose. In normal flight they are covered by faired-in doors. An instant before the rockets are fired, the doors snap open. They snap shut again in a flash...
Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni had the biggest personal triumph, mesmerized the audience with his singing and acting as the Swiss hero: when he fired his crossbow and the apple on his son's head split with a stage-trick snap, there was a loud and relieved cheer...
...succeeded in pulling Reed out of the red, but he has never quite finished the job of pulling its reputation out of the pink. That, says he, will be something for the academic man from Cambridge to do -"And I say to him: snap to it, brother...