Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most men would snap at an honorary degree from the University of the South, popularly known as Sewanee, which for 104 years has been an Episcopal-controlled* showpiece atop the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Yet last week Sewanee got a flat rebuff from its own Russian-born Eugene M. Kayden, professor emeritus of economics and translator of the poems of Boris Pasternak...
...crime stories smell a little purer today, the crusades run a little longer, the bathing beauties show a little less skin; and it is not likely that the News will ever sneak another camera into Sing Sing prison to snap an execution, as it did in 1928 when Murderess Ruth Snyder was electrocuted...
...newsmagazine approaches its nearly impossible task modestly, but both 325 and Time are anything but modest. They not only attempt to cover too much in too little space, but also presume to judge and analyze their subjects. It is not surprising that the opinions come out as unsubstantiated snap judgments and the analysis as so much pretension...
...graduates of Britain's top private schools. But not for many years will redbrick products be Top People in the Establishment. Three-quarters of all university graduates in the House of Commons, for example, are Oxbridge products. Though industry and the foreign service are softening, they still snap up more Oxbrigians than redbrickers...
...says the crew doesn't have anything to be cocky about at the moment. "I think we have good potential," he indicates, "but we have only three men back from last year's varsity. Every race will be a tough one, because everyone we face will be out to snap our streak...