Word: snap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Directory." While the fish didn't snap at the presidential party, Key West's mosquitoes did. Cold rains followed by 90° heat brought them out in swarms. Presidential Assistant John Steelman tried to play golf, quit on the first hole, came back slapping at his legs, arms and neck. There was a run on the dispensary's supply of insect repellent. Then the word went out from the Little White House, and Navy fighters whipped low over the area to spray DDT from their belly tanks. Truman, who has often commented that he is thick-skinned...
...Washington, college presidents agreed that athletes should get a complete education, and not be permitted to breeze through school on snap courses. The committee, set up by the American Council on Education, devoted a good deal of time to the problem of recruiting and subsidization of athletes...
...luncheon Brown coach Alva Kelley praised the work of blocking back Gil O'Neil and of the Harvard line. "The offensive line showed rare snap reactions in single wing blocking," he said. "Their blocking on the short side was remarkable--it kept our weak side end and linebackers flabbergasted...
Richard William Kazmaier is one of the nation's best football players. He is also a refreshing reminder, in the somewhat fetid atmosphere that has gathered around the pseudo-amateurs of U.S. sports, that winning football is not the monopoly of huge hired hands taking snap courses at football foundries. In a day when most back-fields average 180 lbs., he is a slender 5 ft. 11 in., 171 lbs. He is a senior at a small university (3,000) that does not buy its football teams. At Princeton he has a scholarship, just as 42% of his teammates...
...best in the short sketches. Samples: in a supermarket, Jimmy trundled off with a beautiful girl sitting in the rolling market basket, told the audience: "I'd have taken two, but they'd get stale"; to an errant Kellogg salesman, he ordered: "Turn in your snap, popple and crack...