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Word: snap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep it down with trapping. It has eaten my beans and peas and has stripped the bark and branches off 50 young trees. It can stand up on its hind feet and reach more than two feet into the air to snap off small limbs." The voracious creature that stirred the Australian orchardist to complain to the Maitland Pastures Protection Board seemed fearsome indeed. But it was easily identified. After having been nearly down and out Down Under, the wild rabbit is staging an ominous and increasingly destructive comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zoology: Overbreeding Down Under | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

Brown tried everything, including an offensive formation where ten men were on the line: seven way over on the right sideline, two far to the left, and the center alone in the middle. The quarterback was twelve yards behind the line to receive the snap and the whole Harvard defensive line. It didn't work too well...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: JV's Blank Terrier Pups; Yardlings Trample Brown | 11/12/1966 | See Source »

...skin, was the great folk hero of Georgia -before Joseph Stalin came along. To the warlike people of the high wine-and-fruit-growing country between the Black and Caspian seas, Tariel was the perfect combination of vice and virtue. He could slash a man in two with a snap of his whip, slay 10,000 enemies in a single sortie, then weep like a woman at the thought of his own cruelty. Stalin went Tariel one better: he shed no tears. Yet all of Georgia wept when its favorite son died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Georgia on Their Minds | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

After a crash program to speed engineering and styling, Chrysler Corp.'s Chrysler-Plymouth division last week rolled out its first 1967 Barracuda, a sleek new car with long hood, short trunk, fancy waffle grille and such flashy features as a wall-to-wall rear window, snap-open gas-tank cover, wood-paneled dashboard. The Barracuda, which began in 1964 as a jerry-built fastback body mounted on an old-fashioned Valiant chassis, up to now has been a pretty tame fish in a very turbulent pond. The completely new Barracuda, whose prices will start at approximately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Specialty Market | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Smith took the snap from center, straightened up, and fired instantly to Neil Hurley for the 12-yard score. Smith never moved a step back from his position over the center during the play...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Freshman Football Team Pulls Out 6-6 Tie Against Favored Princeton | 11/7/1966 | See Source »

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