Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Galilee, photographers waded knee-deep into the water to snap the Pope head on. As Paul climbed back up the old stone steps leading from the shore, his path was blocked by a genuflecting Italian lensman. "Papa, benedizione [Your benediction, Pope]," implored the photographer. Paul complied -giving the waylayer just the picture he had been after...
Cameras are used for production, protection and sales. IBM uses photographs to make printed circuit boards for computers, and McDonnell Aircraft saves $28 and 15 man-hours on each engineering layout by using cameras for reproduction. As a protection against forgers, cameras snap pictures of people who cash checks in supermarkets and banks. Newark's Beauty Industries Inc. uses an instant-picture Polaroid as a sales tool, photographing a beauty parlor's client and then overlaying different hair styles on the photo so that the customer can see how she will look...
...recession, overcapacity and a cutback in Government stockpiling, has not looked very glamorous since 1958. But rising U.S. wealth has brought back some of the shine to aluminum. Nowadays it seems to be almost everywhere, from towering curtain-wall skyscrapers to a whole new family of seamless, zip-top, snap-top and soft-top aluminum cans. Though profits have not yet kept pace, production is running at 95% of capacity, and shipments have risen 11% so far in 1963, to an annual rate of 3,100,000 tons...
...knows the truth about Billy Liar. Escaping to London is a snap, she says. "You just buy a ticket and get on a train-that's all you do." In a bitter climax, laughter gives way to self-knowledge, to quiet defeat. While Liz heads for London alone, Billy saunters back toward the cold but certain comforts of home-and the loyal troops of Ambrosia fall into step behind...
Jack Cirle, the man who ran back a punt for the only Yale score in The Game last year, gave the first indications of Eli hostility three plays later when be intercepted a Mike Bassett pass that bounced off Tom Stephenson. But the Bulldog quarterback fumbled his second snap from center and Pochop once again claimed the ball, this time on the Yale 27 yard line...