Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Johnny can't read - and 15% of the 36 million U.S. elementary-school children are at least two years behind in reading capability - Johnny's parents usually blame the teachers or their techniques. Teachers often snap back that Johnny just won't try. In perhaps 2,000,000 of these cases, researchers are now discovering, neither school nor student is at fault: Johnny can't read because of a neurophysiological disorder, most often called dyslexia...
...moment near the end of the match it looked like Harvard was going to snap Yale's 17-game unbeaten streak. The Crimson's top man, Brian McGuinn, grabbed a one-hole lead on All-American Ned Snyder with a par on the 17th. But McGuinn three-putted the last green for a sky-high seven and lost the 530-yard 18th hole to the Eli captain's bogey to set up a playoff...
Walls & Lampposts. The mechanics of betting are a snap. All it takes is a scribbled note or a phone call to any of the thousands of bicheiros who haunt the street corners, shops and offices of every city and are easily identified by their sunglasses and cigars. Drawings are usually held at 2 p.m. in local bicho headquarters, and the winning numbers are immediately dispatched by taxi and bicycle, scribbled in chalk on designated walls and lampposts. So clogged do phone lines become after each drawing that telephone company executives call it "the bicho hour...
...head. Twenty, 30 projects at once. Never forgets a fact, never misses a trick." With his office in his head, Merrick is totally mobile. On an after-dinner impulse, he may dart into the street, grab a cab, race to Kennedy Airport, jump on a jet to London, snap up a property in Manchester, get back to New York in less than 48 hours...
...break the spine of a book, John Fist's father once admonished; it's as wrong as killing a helpless animal. So when Sophomore Fist flopped down in his dormitory room at Sheldon College to do a little studying one night, the first thing he did was snap back the cover boards on Kohler's The Mentality of Apes as far as they would go. What the hell-that was the way he felt. All churned up in his guts, but kinda fuzzy and helpless, too. Like a popgun without a cork. As a freshman...