Word: snap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their hands snap salutes to officers, and none of them can leave the base out of uniform. For the 8,000 trainees at the base, located on Lake Michigan about 35 miles north of Chicago's Loop, the watchword has now become the venerable Navy...
Writes TIME Hong Kong Correspondent David DeVoss: "There is in Southeast Asia today a floating refugee population of well over 250,000 that has sacrificed its native culture and heritage only to be caught in a bureaucratic netherworld. Violated in a dozen ways every day, people snap under the strain. Repeatedly raped by pirates during a ten-day crossing of the Gulf of Thailand, one Vietnamese teen-ager spent her first days ashore maniacally screaming. More often the break is less dramatic. Once I sat through a painful conversation in which a well-meaning German explained to a Vietnamese peasant...
Dusk is just settling over the paddies and poultry farms along the Shum Chun River as Captain David Thomas, 27, and his squad begin their daily rounds. Floodlights soon snap on and illuminate the terraces of barbed wire and cyclone fencing that lead down to the river. Thomas, a veteran of British service in Northern Ireland, suddenly spots movement through his "starlight scope...
...women's squash team finishes third out of 20 teams in the Howe Cup tournament. The losses to Princeton and Yale snap Harvard's undefeated record...
After the Rangers threatened early, Jacques Lemaire passed from behind the Ranger net to set up linemate Steve Shutt, who beat John Davidson with a quick snap shot to make it 1-0 Montreal five minutes into the game...