Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comparisons have a limited tensile strength. The more they are drawn the weaker they get, until eventually they snap and become useless...
...Yale--a quick kick. Bobby Leo, who punted for his freshman team, was supposed to do the kicking. But there wasn't enough time to get it straightened out. The quarterback was supposed to flip to Leo, who would get off a quick punt. But one time the snap misfired, once the lateral misfired, and another time the kick was blocked. Feula finally threw the play...
...Crimson is now 4-10 overall and 0-3 in the Ivy League, and must wait until next semester to snap its current four-game losing streak...
...kind of cinema king. He doesn't wear smoked glasses, carry a bull whip and snap orders over his manicurist's shoulder like the major bosses of old. And of course he is not one of the modern independents who incubate their eggs in other people's nests. Wasserman is a corporate president in show business, a modified First National City banker who has wandered through an unusual door, and he has shaped MCA into a trimly efficient manufacturing corporation, ample in size, and self-sufficient, whose net earnings have risen without setback from...
Finally, after two years of gallivanting around, the steelhead comes home to spawn. It even does that the hard way. Salmon spawn in October; rainbow trout lay their eggs in the fall and hibernate sluggishly on the bottom at the first cold snap. But winter-from...