Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...range of materials-silver lamé, brocades and sequins-that never used to be in the swim. Such suits usually come with matching culottes or jackets that can be donned in a jiffy. From pool to poolside cocktails is a quick dab with a towel and a snap of a waistband...
...right to be alienated. But the Advocate's monotonous avant garde anomie turns away fellow-travelers as well as Philistines. The trick is to be artistic, and occasionally to snap out of it. Most of the pieces in the Advocate do not heighten or clarify what they talk about, nor do they entertain. They either grab the reader by the intellect and dare him to interpret them, or they flirt ambiguously with him. Too often the Advocate's authors "confound obscurity of expression with the expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first...
...organization had suffered. The Culligan-Blair regime was a textbook example of mismanagement. Now that Blair is gone and Culligan has been replaced by John Clifford, a one-time NBC vice president, the editorial operation appears to be calming down. "For years we've heard nothing but the snap of the jackals and seen nothing but buzzards overhead," said Post Editor William Emerson. "Now it's time to get a crop...
...spirits, to "blood" two untested North Vietnamese regiments totaling 6,000 men, and reassure Hanoi that this is not the kind of war that effete Americans are prepared to fight. The Reds got blooded, all right, but not as they intended. When their mousetrap at Plei Me failed to snap shut, they turned to another battle-tested stratagem: suicidal airbase raids. They brought off a minor tactical gain-18 U.S. helicopters and two Navy Skyhawks destroyed, 22 other choppers and five Skyhawks damaged at Danang and Chu Lai-that only six months ago would have blown up scare headlines...
Northeastern scored first, as halfback Don Mills broke through three tackles from the five yard line to culminate a long drive. Harvard couldn't move the ball, but when Northeastern attempted to punt during their series of downs there was a bad snap from center. The ball was downed on the Husky 31-yard line...