Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitting ramrod-erect at his ornate Louis XV desk in Elysee Palace, President Charles de Gaulle reaches out occasionally to snap on a loudspeaker dubbed le perroquet (the parrot) that permits him to listen to debate in the National Assembly. Lately the parrot has gone wild with a cacophony of shouting, desktop banging and name-calling that led in one embarrassing instance to a sword duel between two incensed Deputies. The sounds from the box have made painfully clear to De Gaulle that the mere plurality that Gaullists drew in the March parliamentary elections has transformed the comfortably rubber-stamping...
After dropping an 11-7 decision at Princeton Saturday, the Harvard lacrosse team now has only two more chances this season to snap its three-season IVY League losing streak, which now has reached...
...that he is able to come close to the play of last year's great goaltender, Pick Alter. Should the Crimson be able to mount as strong an attack as they did last weekend, in the 10-8 loss to Cornell, the cream of the Ivies, they just might snap their two-season league losing streak this afternoon...
...gawky American, Orson Bean is a drearily familiar caricature. He has been typecast as an innocent for so long that he has become a professional with no surprises to offer. The part needs an innocent innocent. Alluringly gowned and ungowned, Mercouri has enough dramatic electricity in a finger snap to have prevented the Great Power Blackout of 1965. Her voice is a husky cousin to Marlene Dietrich's, but even amplification does not always make it audible. The character she plays, a kind of ouzo-and-sympathy doxy, is unsalvageable since joyous sweet-souled prostitutes are about as believable...
...should be a long afternoon for the Crimson, who will once again be out to snap their Ivy League losing streak. But most experts think that Cornell isn't as strong as last year, when it narrowly edged Harvard...