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Word: snap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need a man in the '60s who can awaken America and snap us out of our complacency. Nixon couldn't wake a light sleeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...reference to your cover illustration showing Khrushchev leading his gang: Khrush (and the others) aren't wearing their golf caps in the approved style for gangsters -namely: visor of cap drawn down over one eye, snap button undone from its catch, and bag top of cap pulled hard backward, sideward, and downward over one ear-all indicating that the wearer is as tough as tar and twice as nasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...receivers are equally familiar with Patton's habits. After calling defensive signals for the Giants' backfield, Patton lines up about 7 yds. away from the man he intends to cover, always shading to one side so that the receiver will have only one clear path. At the snap of the ball, the two men start a routine as formal yet as frantic as a minuet in oldtime flicker films. Running backward all the while, Patton must counter the receiver's maneuvers without falling for a fake. To avoid head, arm and hip fakes. Patton watches a spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Playing Safety | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...this production. His most irritating mannerism was an overuse of the forefinger. He brandished it and he gesticulated with it, to no purpose or effect. He was sometimes funny in the final scenes, when the offending digit was subtracted (perhaps out of fear that his colleague, Lion, would snap...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: Midsummer Night's Dream | 9/30/1960 | See Source »

Down from Moscow. To U.S. diplomats, the snap of Sihanouk's teeth is a familiar sound. Outraged because the U.S. refuses to share his conviction that Cam bodia is in constant danger of invasion from neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam, Sihanouk complains that many of the weapons the U.S. has furnished his 28,000-man Cambodian army are "more dangerous for the user than for the enemy." On one occasion last year, he publicly accused Allen Dulles' CIA of conspiring to unseat his regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The Neutral Harvest | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

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