Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale party. Soon after the mighty Duplessis died in 1959, the Liberals came to power under a new Premier, Jean Lesage, 48, pledged to clean up and modernize Quebec. Last week Lesage took himself and his reform program to the polls in a snap election. The results were decisive: Lesage's Liberals gained nine seats to win a solid majority of 63 seats in the 95-member legislature, and established their leader as a major force in Canadian politics...
...Bruins have terrorised many cocky clubs this season, and the only game that really counts down in Providence is the Harvard one. No matter how lousy Brown is, it always manages to make a respectable showing in the Stadium. The game should be no snap, but I take the resurgent Crimson by a touchdown and hope for more
Such an awful lot of celebrities live around the tony shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, and one young German photographer set out to snap them all. Among the least camera-shy in the chalet colony was Old Litterateur Noel Coward, 62, who obligingly posed for a seraphic portrait before a pair of huge gilt wings that perch above his fireplace. Coward was highly pleased with the result. "It is a pleasant thought," said he, "to know that I have a top-class photographer so much at hand...
With a minute and a half showing, Cornell held the ball at third down on their own 31. The score was 14-12. Quarterback Gary Wood took the snap faded back to pass. A Crimson lineman hit him, but as Wood was falling leaved the pigskin to his halfback Lampkins who tore downfield for yards...
...third major play series in the Crimson repertoire is the run-pass option, and probably will be the favorite of Humenuk and Bartolet. The quarterback takes the snap from center and fades back five to six yards. Up to three receivers (usually the two ends and one halfback) go downfield. The other provide blocking protection. If the quarterback sees no one open, he yells "go" and the potential pass receivers cut back to block out the secondary as the quarterback runs the ball over the line