Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...additional $80 million recoverable if factories worked overtime to make up for lost production. In general, Belgians were bone-weary, and grateful that things had not turned out worse. Expectation was that tenacious Premier Gaston Eyskens would bull his troublesome Loi Unique through Parliament, then quickly call for a snap election. Although Socialists allowed privately that they had no hope of winning the election, they were content with the indirect assurances given by Social Christian (Catholic) Boss Théo Lefevre that Premier Eyskens would not be allowed to succeed himself. "We are casting about for new faces," said Lefevre...
...Harwyn, the Stork and El Morocco. Like major-league ball clubs, they all have their stars. The Harwyn, especially nouveau riche, is a dissident Stork offshoot, having been started by former Stork employees, and treasures Frank Sinatra, who almost never slugs a photographer unless another one is there to snap the scene. (Eden Roc, in turn, is a Harwyn offshoot; New York nightclubs sometimes seem to multiply like amoebae.) The Stork itself is no longer particularly chic, and even the end of its feud with Walter Winchell has done little for either party. El Morocco, which still retains its zebra...
...protect diminishes in perspective when viewed alongside the conservative guesstimate of $60 million per month that flows into foreign tills by way of the million and a half American tourists abroad each year. For this gold loss, stay-at-home Americans are repaid with a horde of misinformation, snap judgments, color slides and miniature Tour Eiffels...
...original 3 hr. 40 min., while the mood of the cast settled into general uncertainty. Knights were complaining that their chain mail was wearing out and tempers were wearing out too. When a dancer tripped over a piece of scenery last week, Set Designer Smith was heard to snap: "I hope you broke your leg." Novice squires were learning from cynical old-timers that this was the time to pursue chorus girls, since they were away from home, lonesome and worried. One reason spirits did not fall farther was that some were being consumed by the imperial quart, backstage...
Nobody really knows when the term "whiplash injury" originated, and U.S. insurance companies, which each year pay out substantial damages to supposed whiplash victims, undoubtedly wish it never had. The sudden backward snap of the head to which whiplash is ascribed generally happens in rear-end automobile collisions; these annually result in thousands of cases of alleged neck injury. Yet standard medical dictionaries do not even mention whiplash, and in the District of Columbia's Medical Annals, Washington Surgeon Francis D. Threadgill insists that it is usually only a synonym for "malingering and self-delusion...