Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which bear the scale scars of many a near miss, and have to swim through water mixed with a dye to make it look deep. The fish are tiny -3 in. to 10 in. long-but some parlors compensate by renting out bamboo poles so flimsy that they often snap in two when a fish is hooked. Some observers have linked the fishing fad to Japan's recent economic recession. Said one: "The people have much time to spare but little money to spend, and the parlor is just the thing for them to use much of the former...
...plated their radiator grilles and head lamps. Says De Angelis: "That's O.K. unless it comes down to some real close judging. Then the car with the nickel plate wins." Best of show went to Arland Banning of Des Moines, who owned a 1931 de luxe Phaeton with snap-in isinglass windows. Final event of the meet is a "slow-driving contest." Each contestant drives his car as slowly as possible in high gear without bucking and stalling-which takes perfect tuning of carburetor and ignition. The slowest car wins...
...Minneapolis Tribune set off on her trail. "We figured not even the White House could keep us off public waters and lakes," said Sentinel Reporter Toni McBride. Piling supplies and cameras into two canoes equipped with outboard motors, the press party occasionally edged close enough to Lynda to snap a picture or two but not close enough to chat. In the process of making eleven portages, the reporters lost much of their cheerfulness. On one portage, when Reporter McBride was rubbing a twisted knee, a Secret Service man passed by, loaded down with packs and sweating profusely...
...Gospeling Psalm. The work opened with the first two verses of Psalm 108: "Urah, hanevel, v'chinor! A-irah shachar! [Awake, psaltery and harp! I will rouse the dawn!]" on a crisp accented chord in 6/4 time. A swelling chorus that any director would snap up for a Biblical movie epic passed into a hot-gospeling rendition of Psalm 100 ("Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"). Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want") was a pastoral solo sung by a boy alto till the chorus interrupted with "Why do the nations rage...
...will be clearer if I say that Leonard Baker's Astrov is absolutely the center of attention in this production because he succeeds in making crystal clear his ties with every one of the seven other principals. He is an electric figure; one could almost hear the audience snap up when he came on stage and relax again when he went...