Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equipped with outboards, put-putted for another nine hours down the Sarapiqui River and the San Juan. The fishing more than made up for the hardship. One of the world's ten top gamefish, the tarpon is a jumping fool that often runs well over 100 Ibs., can snap a line almost at will or make a reel smoke with his furious runs. Experienced fishermen count themselves lucky to boat one out of every ten tarpon they hook into. In three short days at Colorado, contestants boated 102 fish...
Yogi & Huck. A big bite of these profits came from such Kellogg basics as corn flakes, which Founder Will Kellogg began to market in 1906 as a health food, and Rice Krispies, whose snap, crackle, pop is part of American folklore. To keep crackling, Kellogg's puts its faith in new products, has introduced ten new cereals in the last 13 years. The latest is a circular, multicolored, fruit-flavored oat cereal called Froot Loops, which Kellogg's is pushing as suitable-or possibly sootable-for all the family from 5 to 95. Just as pre-sugared cereals...
...most noisy diatribe, which he climaxed by removing his shoe and beating it upon the podium, Harold Macmillan looked up blandly into the TV cameras. "Would someone mind translating the gentleman's remarks" he murmurred. How caustic! How arid! How British! Now, imagine Red Skelton impersonating Macmillan. No more snap and crackle than yesterday's milk-logged Rice Krispies...
Nevertheless, it's silly to escalate all of the author's thoughts to philosophical ultimates. His specific observations snap with insight. The essay about the place of the car in American life is the best one on the subject: When he discusses the marginal place of sociology with its concern for "underprivileged data," Riesman detects and delineates the subtlest of conflicts and snobberies in the scholarly world...
...bonefish will never forget that moment. The first touch of steel sends Albula vulpes racing away in water-spraying terror, ripping off 100 yds. or more of line, straightening hooks, breaking swivels, or maybe snarling the whole shebang around a clump of mangroves. A little six-pounder can snap an 8-lb.-test line, and a big one takes all the luck an angler can muster. Recalls Golfer Sam Snead, who set a class record that still stands by catching a 15-pounder in 1953: "I was using live shrimp. I overcast, and had to feed the line back...