Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, Ladbroke's sometimes goes to the cleaner's itself. Four years ago, when an unusually severe winter cold snap snuffed out sports events for eleven weeks running, the books closed with a chilly $80,000 annual profit. As a hedge against such disasters, Ladbroke's bankrolled a new casino and hotel complex (run by Sheraton) on Malta. Completed only last July, it is already returning a steady...
...merger must be cleared by the Civil Aeronautics Board. That should be a snap. The CAB has long been anxious to dump the heavy Government subsidies ($54 million this year) needed to keep the feeders in the air. Henry & Co. promise to take an immediate 10% cut in their total $10 million a year handout, and expect to be carrying the full load in three to five years...
...year-old Brooklyn woman had survived the first few critical hours after a severe heart attack and should have been on her way to recovery. But part of the muscle in the wall of her left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, was too badly damaged to snap back spontaneously. Six hours after the patient reached the hospital, she was in shock-blue in the face and in a cold sweat. Doctors at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center wanted to give her circulation a boost, at least for a few hours. If her heart could be relieved...
...surcharge (see THE NATION), it could ease the monetary pressures that have lifted interest rates to monumental peaks. The mere presidential request for higher taxes set off a small retreat in municipal bond yields, from an average 3.98% to 3.91% for 20-year issues. And big investors scurried to snap up the last half of the big A. T. & T. debentures, which they had been spurning on the ground that the rate should have even been higher. Many corporations postpone bond offerings if interest rates leap too high. "We don't have much option," says A. T. & T. Vice...
Macbeth sees the first apparition on a downstage stool. Lady Macbeth has to pick up the stool and smash it to the floor in order to snap him out of his hallucination. The second time, the apparition has moved to the upstage throne. Macbeth, tormented by this vision, sees only one care; in a furious and frightening burst of violence, he overthrows the tables between him and it, and hurls himself into the kingly seat--an act of inordinate courage. (This table-throwing works supremely well here, as it did not when Paul Scofield did the same thing in Peter...