Word: snap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What, for instance, happens to a relatively simple compound such as sugar when it is taken into the body in food or drink? What goes wrong with sugar metabolism in the diabetic patient? At what point does the normal metabolic chain snap? Now, at last, biochemists hope to find out. At Manhattan's Memorial Hospital and elsewhere, they have built common sugars such as sucrose and dextrose with one or more atoms of radioactive carbon-14. As the tagged sugar goes through the system and eventually escapes, its progress can be clocked. Doctors already know that there is more...
...plane trip four years ago, a seatmate told John Burton Tigrett about a new toy. It was simply a roll of paper on a stick. With a flick of the wrist the paper coil would shoot five feet into the air and snap back into position. Tigrett, an easygoing Southerner who had long made a hobby of buying up patents, tracked down the inventor, bought his patent for $100 plus royalties, and started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual...
...hope you hammer away at things like that until we get enough snap, pride and steel into our Government and its forces to make such conditions impossible. I'm not fond of vulgarities, but I must say it seems as if our guts are sagging...
...varsity basketball team will be up against a tough opponent when it tries to snap out of a four game losing streak against Penn tonight at 8:30 p.m. at the Blockhouse. The once-beaten freshmen will meet Nichols Junior College in the 6:30 p.m. opener...
...light slug and a relatively low, 2,300-ft.-per-second muzzle velocity. U.S. experts who saw the British .276-cal. perform at Ft. Benning, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 20) call it a "pipsqueak" weapon. They do not like the .276-cal.'s high, telescope-like sight: it could snap off in battle, become useless in foggy or muddy terrain...