Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tamest since the first Venice Biennale, in 1895. The great abstractionists had taken their place in history, and there seemed to be little new to generate a comparable excitement. Thus dealers and collectors were unusually hard put to search out the big names of the future and snap up what they hoped would be bargains...
APRA Chieftain Haya de la Torre stared in disbelief at the TV screen. The election was not going as well as expected, but APRA's figures did not bear out Belaunde's snap victory claim. "Wait till the solid north comes in," Haya muttered. "Then we'll see." He went to a phone. A few minutes later, he came back, pointed at the TV set and said...
...decisions must be made quickly. Above all, Franklin L. Ford will have to deal with departments, and departments are singularly demanding. They need snap approvals or vetoes of funds for special projects, suggestions on revising teaching loads of junior Faculty and graduate students, permission to appoint men to replace professors on sabbatical...
Died. Frank Andrew Burrell, 95, oldest former major league baseball player in the U.S., a catcher who first used the snap throw from a home-plate crouch; of cancer; in Weymouth, Mass...
...ocean air had all but ruined what was left of the British facilities on the island. The harbor was silted with sand. The water supply system was nothing more than a deep ditch cut into the coral to catch rain water. The airstrip was pocked with holes that would snap off a landing gear. The buildings were ready to fall down...