Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Northerners call it a "gut," Southerners a "crip," Westerners a "pipe" or "snap" or "Mickey Mouse." By any name, nothing is so beloved by collegians across the land as the course that is almost impossible to fail. No college ever admitted that it had guts; grateful old grads know better. Today, with students brightening and courses tightening, colleges are supposedly more gutless than ever. But are they...
...fury at Director George Stevens. By Hedda's testimony, practically the only Hollywood personality she has never been able to charm, bully or cajole is Marlon Brando. Her single, memorable interview with him lasted half an hour, during which she did all the talking. Finally, "with a snap of the fingers, I brought him out of his trance: 'Have you been listening, Mr. Brando?' 'Sure.' 'Do you care to answer my questions?' 'I don't believe so.' " Hedda never saw Marlon again...
Last May, Yang traded his old-fashioned aluminum vaulting pole in for a more flexible fiber glass model. "I had to learn to wait, wait for that pole to snap." But Yang slowly got the hang. "On the U.C.L.A. practice field,'' he recalls, "we had to put blocks under the uprights to get them up to 16 ft. Every time I hit the crossbar, one upright would fall over and hit me on the head...
...very complexity of the problem was what appealed most to Dr. Edwin H. Land and his colleagues at the Polaroid Corp. in Cambridge, Mass. This week they began to market the improbable. Polacolor, a self-processing color film. Now, just 50 seconds after the snap of a shutter, a surgeon can record a sharp color shot of a delicate operation; an alert military reconnaissance pilot can produce a revealing picture of an enemy operation; a doting parent can turn out a portrait of his child in remarkably accurate tints...
Kimi was once a dress designer, but when she ventures to make suggestions about her husband's designs, Okada becomes jokingly stern. "When Kimi tries to help, she helps too much," says he, making his thumb and forefingers snap open and shut to suggest a yacketing mouth...